The whole idea of artificial neurons (from McCulloch and Pitts) sounds for me like modelling a wing-flapping mechanism for airplanes. You can get something fun out of it, but I think that further progress will focus on reserve engineering the software (language as a faculty) instead of trying to mimic the underlying machine (human brains).

that this is the worst AI will ever be.

Probably? I think so, at least. I’m not too eager to make a “hard” statement about future tech, though.

Note that my criticism is not towards the development of language models and natural language processing, but specifically against the current state of art technology (LLM).

Many of the arguments against the current approach sound like the owners of a hot air balloon business arguing with the Wright brothers.

That doesn’t say much about the validity of the arguments. And I bet that a lot of people voicing arguments against Dumont or the Wight brothers were actually correct.