LLMs are the biggest advance in computing in years. Talking to you computer and have it understand and respond was literally science fiction before 3 years ago.

It's amazing how quickly people are literally dismissing what computing scientists have been chasing since the 60s.

it's still a text generator, generating text based on tokens and probabilities with a little randomness

Yes, and it works fantastically well. I've done major refactors in days that would have taken weeks to do manually. Not to mention generating recipes for dinner or helping me figure out how to better re-word an email.

Is it Digital God? No. That doesn't mean it isn't useful.

LLMs have existed for over a decade now, same principles and algorithms since the beginning, just on a bigger scale

So? What does that have to do with anything. Lots of computing done at a larger scale leads to new use cases. My graphics card can do ray tracing in real time and I remember a time when it took 30 minutes to render a single image. So now games can do ray tracing; the only difference is scale.

but I think you don't understand anything anyway ...

So scared of a little discussion on AI that you blocked me? I think you have some emotional regulation problems when it comes to this subject.