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If you had said the last 20 years then maybe but last 100 years? For a really good autocomplete? Just think about the innovations over the last 100 years, how
by dwedge 2y ago
If you had said the last 20 years then maybe but last 100 years? For a really good autocomplete?
Just think about the innovations over the last 100 years, how the world looked in 1925
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- dale_glass 2y agoIt's incredibly good autocomplete, though! I remember the 90s, and the time when translation programs were truly awful. They had pretty much no memory, not knowing what "it", or "she" might refer to, from the previous sentence. They tended to pick a translation based on the selected dictionary, and choked on typos and trademarks. A popular past time in my neck of the woods was feeding a translator the manual for a computer mouse, selecting the medical dictionary and giggling at all the incoherent talk about mouse testicles and their removal and cleaning procedures. In light of that, ChatGPT is scifi magic. It translates very well, it deals with informal speech, it can deal with typos, and you can even feed it a random meme JPG and it'll tell you what's it about. It's really like living in the future.
- codingwagie 2y agoWell human beings are just auto complete if thats all LLMs are
- __loam 2y agoYes, the classic retort.
- cyberlurker 2y agoIt’s absolutely amazing what these things can produce with simple prompts. I do think it deserves recognition as a top 5 innovation of the last 100 years. We can call it really good autocomplete but it really is incredible. That doesn’t mean I agree all jobs are going away, AGI is here, or all these other guesses people are making about the future.
- fragmede 2y agoIf all you've used it for is autocompleting code, you're doing yourself a disservice. In 1925, there were already cars and airplanes and telephones, even if they were still very new. There have been great leaps and advances in medicine and genetic engineering like CRISPR and mRNA vaccines. Computers and the Internet are the two really huge things from the past 100. The industrial revolution predates 1925. Where a man could make one widget before, with a machine, he could make a thousand of them. So there's a multiplicative effect from that machine. Where you needed 10 humans you could now use one. AI is still developing, but promise of it is even greater because we can, in the hoped for future, copy paste the human who does the work. It's a ludicrous idea, and the societal impact would be immense, and we're not there yet, but given that there were already telephones in 1925, an optimists view of what we're on the cusp of really is revolutionary. That, of course, is the optimist's view. If you cynically see LLMs as a dead end that won't ever get that far even with Moore's law, then any day now we're going to come to our senses and give up on the whole thing, but looking at how we've come to our senses about crypto and Bitcoin is now worth $0, all I can say is that I'm along for the ride.
- wordpad 2y agoI am with OP. Being able to have full meaningful conversations with a machine about any topic in existence is up there with invention of flight.