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>> I don't agree with his take on LLMs. His take may be a bit jaded from his own experience. He worked as a Lisp hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab
by thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
>> I don't agree with his take on LLMs.
His take may be a bit jaded from his own experience.
He worked as a Lisp hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab when AI research was peaking in the 1970s.
The commercialization of Lisp and early AI effectively destroyed the hacker paradise he worked in and the following "AI Winter" devastated the research and its funding.
These experiences lead him to start the GNU project, so the net result was good for software, but definitely colored his perspective.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Harvard_University_and_MIT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Harvard_Unive... for more details.