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 Even if you consider LLMs a break through .. they are  puny compared to fixing global monetary system ..  

There are 8 billion walking LLMs .. every human essentially carries a LLM in a tiny part of brain .. why do we need more of them .. particularly if they consume gitawatts more. A human brain runs on 100 watts .. a 💡

And the idea that LLMs know all the information on internet is stupendously wrong .. the web scrapes help them only understand what word to use next to frame a  grammatically coherent answer .. there is no wisdom whatsoever ..