I promise this question is asked in good faith. I do not currently see the point of generative AI and I want to understand why there’s hype. There are ethical concerns but we’ll ignore ethics for the question.
In creative works like writing or art, it feels soulless and poor quality. In programming at best it’s a shortcut to avoid deeper learning, at worst it spits out garbage code that you spend more time debugging than if you had just written it by yourself.
When I see AI ads directed towards individuals the selling point is convenience. But I would feel robbed of the human experience using AI in place of human interaction.
So what’s the point of it all?
Years ago I made a chatbot for Yahoo chat that I wanted to learn from watching chatrooms, it was basically a really primitive version of llms but programmed badly in vb6 because I wasn’t that great (everything programming was self learned) . I later went into Delphi a bit but yeah it was all for my own dodgy ideas (trojans, irc bots, password crackers and similar lame ideas I suspect most programmer have tried but never admit to)
But yeah it analysed sentences and could respond in kind due to chats it had seen the trouble was after about 2 days it became very very slow and basically useless due it’s database file growing.
I kinda feel llms now are just the same thing but with huge resources chucked at them.