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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 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?

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I 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?

It 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.

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