Comment by SpicyLemonZest

LLMs are only a subset of generative AI. If we discover that LLMs aren't a pathway to society-transforming AGI, I think the attention towards them will be pretty easily redirected towards image use cases. It seems like a pure engineering problem, well within the state of the art, to e.g. enable me to produce a beautifully formatted flow chart or slide deck with the same amount of effort it takes to write a paragraph today.