[xnx]

We're still barely scratching the surface of AI/LLM/ML. It's correctly getting plenty of attention because it is general purpose technology (steam engine, electricity, the Internet, etc.).

Lot of interesting things happening with NeRF, Gaussian splatting, and similar. We're close to be able to do full 3D video capture of locations and high-fidelity playback/exploration in VR.

[aelmeleegy]

Do you think LLM/ML is on the level of steam engine and electricity: a century and more in value, and still holding on; or more of cloud computing level: OpenAI being analogous to AWS, providing loads of value but still on the 1 decade scale?

[xnx]

Much much bigger than cloud computing. Cloud computing is more like steam engine to the internal combustion engine. ICE allowed for airplanes, but not as big a deal as moving from animal power to chemical power. AI is closer in significance to the transistor. Before the transistor, you could do the same things with vacuum tubes. The scale of the transistor made so much more possible. You can accomplish a lot of what AI does with millions of hand-written rules, but AI automates the generation of these rules.

[aelmeleegy]

Love that comparison!

I'm so glad that some companies/people are building and releasing models to the public. This amazing development being exclusive to OpenAI would've been a terrible situation for the world.

[segmondy]

Are you doing anything with LLM?