The author expresses concern about the overestimation of LLMs' capabilities and the potential misuse of these models in important areas like job recruitment. They argue that LLMs do not possess a rich internal model of the world, but merely mimic human-like text based on their training. The author hopes that the hype around "AI" will eventually collapse, leading to a more critical evaluation of its uses and limitations.
Key takeaways:
- The author experimented with the language model, ChatGPT, to generate pangrams, which are phrases that use every letter of the alphabet at least once.
- ChatGPT struggled with the task, often failing to include all necessary letters and making errors that a human would not.
- The author argues that this demonstrates the limitations of current AI models, which are not as 'intelligent' as they may seem and do not possess a rich internal model of the world.
- Despite these limitations, the author expresses concern about the potential misuse of such models in important real-world applications, such as job recruitment.