[non_sequitur]

This was his Tweet from several weeks ago, which I thought was insightful, both from a technical as well as socieconomic perspective when you think about data usage etc in these models - "Caterpillars extract nutrients which are then converted into butterflies. People have extracted billions of nuggets of understanding and GPT-4 is humanity's butterfly."

Did he see enough in the past 6 weeks that made him change his mind?

[munificent]

Note that in that analogy, the caterpillar is dissolved during the process.

[zamnos]

Fun fact: Scientists have determined that a moth or butterfly may not remember being a caterpillar, it can remember experiences it learned as a caterpillar. Hence I'm not sure dissolved is quite the right word to use because the nervous system stays with the creature during there process. The most accurate word is metamorphosis, since that's the word we gave for that process.

The other detail is that at the end of the process is a butterfly, so y'know, there's that.

[mesebrec]

I think dissolved is the correct term since the caterpillar turns into goo, which turns into the butterfly. Given how the metamorphosis works, it's still an open question how it's able to retain memories. A brain floating in a bath of goo?

[munificent]

But, if you happen to like being a caterpillar, it's probably worth nothing that after the metamorphosis is complete, there is no more caterpillar.