LLMs, the Hype, the Anti Hype and the reality

This post must have been written long ago. But late is better than never. right? Every time a new technology with some noise gets light of the day, a hype and an anti hype happens. Both which turn out to be quite wrong or very inaccurate about reality of the new tech. Decades ago, the same situation existed for Linux(the kernel), the Web/Internet, Machine Learning(and particularly Neural Networks)…