Current state of LLM's aka AI

I think to most the LLM models and services feel like magical AI, and it is getting better then ever.

Definition of AI: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the field of computer science focused on creating systems that can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. These tasks include learning from data, reasoning, solving problems, understanding language, perceiving patterns, and making decisions.

By that definition these tools are approaching levels which this is very possible. I personally have built full administration websites and committed code beyond what I understand but I know it functions. When I give Claude code a prompt for an enhancement and it reads the project files and then builds a test plan, then runs the tests and has to correct some items as the test fails. This checks many of those boxes.

There is a site that tracks an Intelligence index as of today 4/19/2025 here is the models above 50 intelligence. Details from https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models

I've been using Claude models for over a year and they are very impressive and have been my go too. 4.7 just came out this week so I haven't had much time with it.

OpenAI caught some flack recently for getting buddy buddy with the US government doing things Anthropic wouldn't. If you believe the interviews of the CEO it is literally allowing the models to determine some life or death decisions. The scary thought is ready or not these are being built and will be deployed sooner than later.

ChatGPT was the first to the masses and it really brought this technology to light. It has quick become a de facto replacement for Google searches (All kings reign will end).

So where are we heading from here? We've seen companies trimming some areas as they have or have not implemented enhancements whether it's Copilot or Claude or GPT. I sat in a meeting of CIOs and had a discussion showing most employees are only leveraging less than 5% of the possible functionality. As we learn how to train more employees effectively I imagine this trend will continue.

I do hope this spurs a rejuvenation of smaller companies competing against the monopolies our government doesn't seem to want to touch. I hope those laid off have ample opportunities to find work at other small and medium business. Obviously this is not easy on the employees so we all should be aware of this possibility as different companies will face this hurdle with different ideas. Only time will tell how far this will affect the everyday of business.