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by muzani
743 days ago
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LLMs are basically attention machines. Just like the steam engine did physical work, LLMs do mental work. You can't get a steam engine to dig a hole though. It was used to pump water. Then carry things. Then locomotion. They were limited to rails. They did take jobs. Then other kinds of engines appeared. They did things steam engines didn't do so well. But turning an engine to a bulldozer isn't easy and that created a lot of new jobs. Right now LLMs are doing the equivalent of pumping water. Heavy, boring, tedious things that humans don't really want to do. I hated doing data entry and cleaning and LLMs are great at that. One thing many creatives won't admit is that a lot of their work is generic and repetitive, simply requiring lots of attention to get good output. Screenwriters were one of the first people I've observed utilizing LLMs, because they understood this. Someone hacked Copilot to start writing scripts. There's probably a lot of things it can do, perhaps in animation and logo design and stuff. And there's a lot it can't do. But they're shocked because it's doing the "soulful" stuff that people thought made them human, when it's actually just the advantage of having a huge training database of tropes. Will art go obsolete? The first knowledge worker to lose his job to AI was Kasparov, and yet human chess is still more popular than ever. |
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Steam shovels came out in the early 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_shovel
> They were limited to rails
Um, no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_tractor and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_steam_road_vehicles