This is also what’s happening with the AI boom at the moment—it’s a “solution” in search of a problem. There’s SOME areas where it can be useful for specific tasks, but they’re hell bent on making it mandatory to be used for EVERYTHING whether it makes any sense or not.
The Metaverse comes immediately to mind.
From what I can tell, it’s just a glorified search function to replace the crappiness of existing searches.
This is a good description, but it’s often a bad search function. Fundamentally, LLMs are Markov Chains with delusions of grandeur, that search a fixed autocomplete space. Creating a new neural network is also computationally expensive.
When I say “glorified” I mean that in the same sense as religious relics, they enshrine a thing very old as somehow new and probably entirely fake.
Ah … gotcha Sorry, I’m used to people using “glorified” to mean “fancy, but basically” … you are very correct in your usage — lots of worship.
Nothing on the internet should EVER be treated without due skepticism.