I think I got a really good dose of understanding early on when I realized GPT3 could write code. I saw how the world had changed in an instant, and when other folks realized you could write code, they were in awe at first, but then quickly complained about how it didn't work all that great after all, and how human programmers are so much greater, yadda yadda knee-jerk defensive response.
Being quick to dismiss the potential - no, the inevitable- is simply silly.
I guess the big observation I have for you is that there are a whole bunch of kids growing up today with LLMs in their hands, just like the current gen Alpha grew up with smartphones and social media from birth. What does that mean? IMO, it means a lot of folks will take all this for granted. It's magic, though! I know this because I tried very hard to do many of the things I can now do in a minute fraction of the time. Kids don't see this today, and maybe that's not such a bad thing - they'll demand ever more improvements, not really understanding why those dummies who created the first generative AI didn't think of those rather obvious things when they created the first good LLMs.
They won't get that there wasn't like some planning committee, just a shocking invention that rocked the world, and we've been scrambling to adjust ever since.
I think I got a really good dose of understanding early on when I realized GPT3 could write code. I saw how the world had changed in an instant, and when other folks realized you could write code, they were in awe at first, but then quickly complained about how it didn't work all that great after all, and how human programmers are so much greater, yadda yadda knee-jerk defensive response.
Being quick to dismiss the potential - no, the inevitable- is simply silly.
I guess the big observation I have for you is that there are a whole bunch of kids growing up today with LLMs in their hands, just like the current gen Alpha grew up with smartphones and social media from birth. What does that mean? IMO, it means a lot of folks will take all this for granted. It's magic, though! I know this because I tried very hard to do many of the things I can now do in a minute fraction of the time. Kids don't see this today, and maybe that's not such a bad thing - they'll demand ever more improvements, not really understanding why those dummies who created the first generative AI didn't think of those rather obvious things when they created the first good LLMs.
They won't get that there wasn't like some planning committee, just a shocking invention that rocked the world, and we've been scrambling to adjust ever since.