very strange seeing tech commentators I usually find to have their heads screwed on wind up quite so boosterish on machine learning in the advent of large language models, when the utility of them has really yet to be established
weirder still to hear them say, for example, "Apple need to catch up" in a field where the bleeding edge is… stuff that is plainly broken and wrong, and when Apple have already been using machine learning in reasonable, responsible ways that are actually broadly useful for several years now
these large language models really do have the gift of the gab
