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by crop_rotation 1178 days ago
There is no comparison with bitcoin here. Bitcoin is still struggling to find a single legitimate use case, while GPT4 is already proving so useful to so many people (including me).

> What you're seeing now is as good as it gets (in terms of big breakthroughs, there will still be lots of small and medium ones).

Unless you have a strong source for this, I find it hard to believe. Also, GPT3 didn't have many big breakthroughs over GPT2, other than massive parameter size.

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My comparison was merely in terms of how the technology evolves, not it's applications. Sure, Ether and zero-trust coins seem to add a lot, but from a 10.000 feet it's pretty much more of the same. Also, agreed that GPT1->4 didn't involve any breakthroughs. In my eyes, there's not much diff between them.

> Unless you have a strong source for this, I find it hard to believe

Like I said, this is just my opinion. I do have a world-expert level understanding of the technology, but at the same time I'm a strong believer that even experts are bad at predicting the future, so make of this what you will. Also, my impression of what constitutes a breakthrough and what doesn't might vary a lot from yours.