there's been steady progress on language models for the past 6-7 years, getting somewhat faster in the last 2 years, in part due to fundamental advances, in par

there's been steady progress on language models for the past 6-7 years, getting somewhat faster in the last 2 years, in part due to fundamental advances, in part due to (mainly) OpenAI being a little more product focused. it's true that certain types of scammers and influencers have started jumping on LLMs en masse now that shilling cryptocurrencies isn't so lucrative. i think that if it appears from your perspective like there is a brand-new LLM hype bubble that just appeared this year to substitute for the previous cryptocurrency hype bubble, you're in a bad part of the information ecosystem.