Technology

GPT5 just proved what many of us in the software industry on the technical side have been saying since the beginning.

LLMs are not AI. And they are only as useful as the information they are trained on, and with the industry using all of the internet to train the majority of them, they have tons of false information. And everything an LLM says is based on s confidence level that it's correct, but those confidence levels are configured so low that it's often way off. Plus people are used to computers giving specific, correct answers, but LLMs are all about small talk and making things up to fill time because that's what they're trained on. People need to learn these aren't AI and everything they say needs to be taken with that in mind. Double and triple check it before believing it. But since we often don't even do that with humans, thus the whole anti-vax thing for example, it's even harder for people to want to do that for something that was explicitly marketed as preventing them from needing to do the research.

So now that those not profiting directly from AI are seeing that it's probably never going to get better as promised, they're losing confidence. But it will stick around for s while. The energy industry is powerful and is lobbying hard for it since it's the first time in a while our energy demands have spiked so high. And with the mechanisms to monitor climate change being shut down or explicitly destroyed in the US, and conservatives convinced that the natural disasters are just short term, dirty fuel demand is back, more than ever. So they have a ton of incentive to keep it alive ss well as the companies making it.