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It's funny: The article talks about GPT and diffusion in the context of technological innovations, and then getting to AI/LLMs. But "diffusion" and "GPT" have s
by albertzeyer 1y ago
It's funny: The article talks about GPT and diffusion in the context of technological innovations, and then getting to AI/LLMs. But "diffusion" and "GPT" have some very different meaning in the context of AI/LLMs, referring to specific kind of models.
That said, I don't really get the conclusion of the article. We should put more effort for productization of LLMs? But isn't that exactly what the big companies are trying to do already?
- MarkusQ 1y agoI wonder if it's some sort of search engine hack or something? The diffusion of "General Purpose Technologies" seems like a slightly strained way to phrase it, and should have struck the author as awkward given the name space collisions. Unless it's an attempt at humor?
- credit_guy 1y agoIt is indeed an attempt at humor, but it comes near the end: > when a GPT finds a form factor that allows it to fulfill a real need. Whether it be celestial navigation, steam power or, indeed, the Generative Pretrained Transformer.