What will be next I wonder? I really can’t think of anything. This AI phase feels like grasping at straws like when TV tried to do 3d.
LLMs and diffusion models aren’t going anywhere.
As to all the nonsense they’re trying to sell right now, sure; but I think this is an epoch moment like the internet was for most of us.
Generative AI brought us cringe. It has existed for like 5 years now and it's still a solution in desperate search of problems.
I can select a PDF and ask for facts from it and page numbers where the information is. If you think that isn’t amazing I don’t know what your scale is.
IDK what you’ve been doing with LLM models but it is a major shift even if you can’t see it.
In both cases, it's a signal that a correction, maybe even a crash, is going to come due to massive over- and misinvestment.
But like the 90s internet, it's likely going to be extremely transformative in the longer term.
Some people focus on the short term part of this, others on the long term. Integrating both into a coherent perspective isn't that easy.
It's going to be interesting for a while!
You can already do this, press ctrl-f and search. Boom, done.
LLMs don't solve new problems much - rather they give you a new INTERFACE into a solution. Natural language.
Before you'd use commands, specific software, processes, formats, configuration. Now you can use natural language (maybe sometimes). To me, this isn't a break through.
> autocomplete on steroids
Maybe if we manage to run LLMs locally, we can put one into a keyboard app and finally have a Russian touchscreen keyboard that doesn't make me want to yeet my phone at a wall for repeatedly failing to type the word in the correct grammatical form when I use gesture input. But somehow we aren't there yet. I guess ChatGPT is more important.