On LLMs -- I would add there is at least one other reasonable use case: chatgpt o4-mini-high with search is decent at websearching for and summarizing information on mundane topics that many people know well, few people disagree about, and you know nothing about. Like, if you want to know what kind of soil type is good for your nasturtium. Or if you want somebody to explain Gaussian splatting. Of course it does make mistakes, but I probably would too. In this context, it is probably ok if the quality of the writing is meh, because you just want to know how much perlite to add to your potting mix without going to a website that accosts you with a mind-numbing panoply of ads.
Of course, this raises a question about how the internet is going to actually be funded in 10 years if those websites cannot figure out how to get revenue...!
On LLMs -- I would add there is at least one other reasonable use case: chatgpt o4-mini-high with search is decent at websearching for and summarizing information on mundane topics that many people know well, few people disagree about, and you know nothing about. Like, if you want to know what kind of soil type is good for your nasturtium. Or if you want somebody to explain Gaussian splatting. Of course it does make mistakes, but I probably would too. In this context, it is probably ok if the quality of the writing is meh, because you just want to know how much perlite to add to your potting mix without going to a website that accosts you with a mind-numbing panoply of ads.
Of course, this raises a question about how the internet is going to actually be funded in 10 years if those websites cannot figure out how to get revenue...!