> My hunch is the people that are truly irked by this are too deep / close to the subject and because it doesn't match up with what they've worked on, studied,

> My hunch is the people that are truly irked by this are too deep / close to the subject and because it doesn't match up with what they've worked on, studied, invested time, mental energy into, well then of course it's hot garbage and 'bad'. That's quite the straw man you've built. Recognizing the limitations of a technology is not the same as calling it hot garbage. As a language model it's amazing, but I agree with the GP. It's not intelligent. It's very good at responding to a series of tokens with its own series of tokens. That requires a degree of understanding of short scale context that we haven't had before in language models. It's an amazing breakthrough. But it's also like attributing the muscle memory of your hand to intelligence. It can solve lots of problems. It can come up with good configurations. It is not, on its own, intelligent.