My (non-brilliant) take is that LLMs are basically faster, cheaper versions of Mechanical Turk (Amazon's, not the 18th century automaton). Like Mechanical Turk

My (non-brilliant) take is that LLMs are basically faster, cheaper versions of Mechanical Turk (Amazon's, not the 18th century automaton). Like Mechanical Turk, you need to "program" by giving English instructions and the results can be (depending on the instructions) non-deterministic. But Mechanical Turk did not revolutionize computing. Can a faster and cheaper version do so? Sometimes incremental improvements turn into paradigm shifts. But sometimes not. I guess we'll see (which is another lukewarm take--sorry).