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We're barely scratching the surface of the space of applications of (very) LLMs and they're not going away anytime soon. The commercial world simply moves too s
by loa_in_ 3y ago
We're barely scratching the surface of the space of applications of (very) LLMs and they're not going away anytime soon. The commercial world simply moves too slow for any clues about what's yet to come.
- littlestymaar 3y agoTrue, but there could still be an overinflated bubble that collapses in the meantime. In fact that's exactly what happened with the web: it sure was revolutionary (and we still haven't reached its full potential IMHO) but that fact didn't prevent the dotcom bubble burst.
- jprete 3y agoThe Web also has had a lot of downsides that weren’t clear at the time, particularly when paired with smartphones and Skinner-style behavior reinforcement.
- rchaud 3y agoThe early web's killer app was email and instant messaging, which were orders of magnitude cheaper and faster than snail mail and long distance phone calls. That's why adoption was fast. The current usefulness of consumer AI pales in comparison.