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Computers and the internet looked like bubbles until they didn’t. Not every craze is the next big thing, but for LLMs it’s still too soon to say anything with
by valine 4y ago
Computers and the internet looked like bubbles until they didn’t.
Not every craze is the next big thing, but for LLMs it’s still too soon to say anything with certainty. The people comparing LLMs to autocomplete have no more legitimacy than people who think LLMs are the first coming of AGI.
I found it humorous that the author couldn’t help but anthropomortise ChatGPT by calling it ”fully automated supremely confident liar”. Calling it a liar implies intent to deceive. Strange to ascribe intent to an autocomplete.
- pmoriarty 4y agoHe's not really anthropomorphizing it. He's just trying to phrase things in the snarkiest, clickbaitiest way possible.
- valine 4y agoIt’s clickbaity because it invites the reader to anthropomorphize ChatGPT.
- masswerk 4y ago> Computers and the internet looked like bubbles until they didn’t. The funny thing being, it isn't that clear how the (personal) computer revolution worked out: The IBM PC was envisioned as a dumb smart terminal that would rely on mainframe integration for anything serious business. This model clearly failed with the advent of i386, as tasks were increasingly done locally and exclusively so. That model failed clearly, as computers are now dumb smart terminals that are connected to mainframes (AKA "the cloud")… Similarly, the Internet revolution would connect everyone on equal standing and equal reach, decentralized, as opposed to the ideas of information utilities that has been proposed previously, an idea that clearly failed. Now this idea has clearly failed, as the Internet has become a centralized information utility run by a few companies for the majority of its use…