Steve Hanke says there's excessive buzz around AI — and it could end badly. The veteran trader and economist told Business Insider by email that he agrees with Yann LeCun , Meta's former chief AI scientist and a pioneer in the field, who's warned that large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT just aren't that revolutionary. Hanke quoted a speech by LeCun in the spring of 2024, where he said: "We're easily fooled into thinking they are intelligent because of their fluency with language, but