Type 3 engineers invented chatGPT with the end goal of moving closer to actualizing the reality of Making software the solution to any problem.
In one sense they are myopic. In another sense they are thinking further than anyone else.
In one sense they are myopic. In another sense they are thinking further than anyone else.
Now, if you think machines are better off than the human race at a next evolutionary stage then... that's a totally different story. That might actually be true, and we might be the wrong species to continue on. In that case, software would be a solution.
But you cannot convince me that software for the sake of software is a solution to human problems.
No it will not solve all problems and AI will certainly solve many problems that were previously unsolvable.
At most people working on LLMs are gambling on the idea that AI can solve every problem solvable by something as intelligent as a human.
The economic side effect is a different story to the problem at hand.