LLMs feel a bit like if someone invented the jet turbine in 1920. People are super impressed, they're bolting them to biplanes and model Ts to see what they can

LLMs feel a bit like if someone invented the jet turbine in 1920. People are super impressed, they're bolting them to biplanes and model Ts to see what they can make them do, world records are being broken, there's breathless debate about whether this might mean ultra-fast travel - but until someone invents the monocoque metal monoplane, the revolution progresses slowly. LLMs are incredible. They really are. They can think fuzzily about human concepts, and interface those fuzzy concepts with cold hard computer things like programming languages and databases. But we need a whole bunch more ancillary technology before they'll really start shifting the social needle.