Simon Willison's first blog on LLMs (2022)

I remember bookmarking gwern's GPT-3 Creative Fiction [https://gwern.net/gpt-3] sometime in late 2020. It's a labyrinthine article that was a bit confusing to work through: What here is written by a human? Is a neural network really writing poetry? Whatever you think about the impacts of LLM into the future (regarding AGI, etc), it's jarring to look back just five years. We each have a sense of what we expect to experience when we interact with digital computers, and the envelope of possible experiences has simply exploded.