> optimized for a particular thing and repurposing them
A lot of human exuberance (and thus investment) is riding on the questionable idea that a really good text fragments correlation specialist system can usefully impersonate a generalist AI. ("LLM, which rocks are the best to eat?")
Even worse: Some people assume an exceptional text-specialist model will usefully meta-impersonate a generalist model impersonating a specific and different kind of specialist! ("LLM, do my taxes.")
A lot of human exuberance (and thus investment) is riding on the questionable idea that a really good text fragments correlation specialist system can usefully impersonate a generalist AI. ("LLM, which rocks are the best to eat?")
Even worse: Some people assume an exceptional text-specialist model will usefully meta-impersonate a generalist model impersonating a specific and different kind of specialist! ("LLM, do my taxes.")