> I think people are extrapolating quite a bit as though this is some kind of movement forward from GPT-4 or Midjourney 5 into a new advanced reasoning phase, r

> I think people are extrapolating quite a bit as though this is some kind of movement forward from GPT-4 or Midjourney 5 into a new advanced reasoning phase, rather than a neat new combination of stuff that existed a year ago. It can be both. Life itself was a "neat combination of stuff that existed" before. It isn't about the raw ingredients, but the capability of their whole. Also, history as shown that are periods of time where rapid progress happens. It looks like we are in one of those, and it will make the previous ones look like baby steps.