That's fair -- perhaps we could frame it as a large-scale beta test of sorts. Researchers are building LLMs to solve problems, but new technologies can often en

That's fair -- perhaps we could frame it as a large-scale beta test of sorts. Researchers are building LLMs to solve problems, but new technologies can often end up solving problems they were never designed for. Once people get their hands on them, they test and tinker and find new uses for them. Sometimes it turns out not to be a good solution to the initial problem, but a great solution for something completely different. For instance, while I'm still generally of the opinion that generative models have limited use unless they're grounded to reality...I did see a post on Reddit about someone using ChatGPT to generate story ideas for their D&D game. So yeah...don't need to be tethered to reality to make a fantasy story! That's not something I would have thought of (even though I'm a DM!), and it's still relatively niche, but it's a great story of how getting something into people's hands to play with can generate lots of new ideas.