[runarberg]

You are being overly obtuse. LLMs is also a technology of the 1990s with many minor breakthroughs this century and finally a major breakthrough this decade. And these breakthroughs were all about finding novel algorithms to apply to the model. Neural networks and language models are ancient technology really.

The exact same story is with mRNA vaccines. And almost the same with fusion power, though it is still on the minor improvements phase, the latest being the first time we reached an energy gain factor in the National Ignition Facility experiment in California in 2022.

You are applying arbitrary limitations in what counts as “new technology” and then selectively applying them such that LLMs have a lower barrier then other technology.