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by digital_sawzall 532 days ago
> past two years has been eye watering to say the least

Are we seeing the same progress? GPT-4 was released in March 2023, that's almost two years. Tools are much better but where is the vast improvement?

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I legitimately dont know how to reply, bc by this point llms co-own all aspects of my life and jumps between gpt4->claude3->claude3.5->o1 have all been very noticeable
I'm the opposite. We're presumably in a similar line of work, but while I've experimented with every major release from OpenAI and Anthropic last year -- I've barely ever used an LLM outside of that.

I still Google things I want to know and skip the AI part.

> I still Google things I want to know and skip the AI part.

My Google use is down significantly. And I mostly reach for it when I am looking for current information that LLMs do not yet have training data for. However, this is becoming less of an issue as of late. DeepSeek for example has a lot of current data.

GPT-2 was generating snippets of HTML ten years ago. Was it valid? Not always, but neither is the current crop. It's been incremental logarithmic gains approaching an asymptote for ten years now. Since before "Open"AI stopped being open.
GPT-1 was released 7 years ago, but ok. You really think GPT-4 to o1 is increasingly logarithmic the same way 4 to 4o is?