Five years ago they were a niche toy for generating plausible text for entertainment. I was using one. It was an amazing party trick. Now they're popular toys t

Five years ago they were a niche toy for generating plausible text for entertainment. I was using one. It was an amazing party trick. Now they're popular toys thanks to their ability to entertain CEOs, and they can maintain coherence longer thanks to KV caches and more compute, and someone slapped a chat interface on top, but they're fundamentally the same.