Stewart Alsop: Most People Get LLMs Wrong, From Hype to Dismissal
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-04
Stewart Alsop laments how few people hold an accurate view of LLMs. He says most swing between extremes: fantasy-level hype, or dismissal as "fancy autocorrect" or "just Skynet." All are wrong, he argues, urging people to study history to calibrate their judgment.
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