AI if you are speaking in English, sir (Eu também misturo AI falando em português e IA falando em inglês lol).

I think my hate against AI began far before LLMs. When I was finishing my BS degree, the hype in the academia (at least in my uni) was about bio-inspired AI algorithms. So there were the classics PSO, which is inspired in a flying bug swarm and ACO, which is ant-inspired. Then I saw articles about bee-inspired algorithms, my professor was about fish school inspired algorithms, then another of his students made a wolf pack inspired algorithm - and I was like, they are simply gaming the system. Because all studies followed a similar pattern, get a public dataset or a complex mathematical function, use this new algorithm to get the optimal responses, do some crap math to give as proof the algorithm would converge to some points, then do some experiments to benchmark your "novel" algorithm against some existing ones. I thought at that point people were working on those stuff not because they wanted to achieve anything, but because they wanted to game the publication system to get access to more research funds.

And yes, I think LLMs have a far worse stench. Yes, LLMs are a new novel technique that allow us for the first time to generate stuff from simple commands. That said, most practical uses I've found for AI was to either make search slightly better because you don't have to deal with a bunch of sites trying to game (SEO) the search engines, or to generate output (images, code, or other assets) that follow a very specific set of patterns. So even it's a novel approach, the hype is talking about end of the world and apocalypse, so that its main objective is to just to inflate the current stock prices of AI companies, so they get access to more cash. So it's another money grab scheme. This time it's far worse, because investment companies are betting people's retirement funds, instead of simply getting a larger pie of your country's research budget.

So it's a chaotic production anarchy, so commonly found in capitalism. And the calamity I'm waiting to happen is not when AGI comes, but when the AI bubble explodes and people start losing their jobs, their savings and retirement funds when that happens.