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In the end I think LLM's will not be used on their own much, and instead more as glue for bringing together a whole bunch of other technology and allowing it to be coordinated with plain English.
Microsoft researches just put out a paper about 'proto-AGI' in the last 24 hours or so, and tool use was a big part of the paper.
OpenAI is like Google before 2003, dazzling the world with amazing products backed by astonishing technologies that went beyond wild dreams of millions of people. And most importantly, OpenAI kept releasing new features at blazing speed with a few hundred people, just like early days of Google and Microsoft. This reminds me of stark contrast of Google's GSuite and Microsoft Office. Microsoft released new office every…
This is pretty hyperbolic. Great products that were much better than what they replaced or competed with, but "beyond wild dreams of millions of people"? You'd think they cured cancer in 2003 or something...
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What happened in 2003?
Nothing particular. I just don't remember major successful and speedy product launches from Google after 2003. In that year, Google launched Google Maps, shocking the IT world for how effective AJAX can be, even though the tech itself was invented by MS. Maybe GMaps was so impressive that I forgot what other major launches were after that.
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Could be just zero, because they can consider that given the very very large popularity of OpenAI and the niche popularity of WolframAlpha, that OpenAI is doing free advertisement to WA.
Stephen Wolfram is pretty comfortable being in profitable niches. Even if there was a possible mutually beneficial arrangement it still behooves him to extract value out of it. Especially if upside is disproportionately beneficial to Bing and in time the language model will absorb some of the WolframAlpha capabilities so there is a risk factor involved as well. Plus, people with large egos tend to demand costly tribu…
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> It seems like basically every knowledge worker can and will augment their workflows with this tech. Alternately, 1/10 will be able to adapt to becoming cyborgs responsible for handling the same workload, while 9/10 get laid off
> Alternately, 1/10 will be able to adapt to becoming cyborgs responsible for handling the same workload, while 9/10 get laid off Somehow, vastly decreasing the cost per unit output for the work won’t increase the market clearing quantity?
OpenAI is like Google before 2003, dazzling the world with amazing products backed by astonishing technologies that went beyond wild dreams of millions of people. And most importantly, OpenAI kept releasing new features at blazing speed with a few hundred people, just like early days of Google and Microsoft. This reminds me of stark contrast of Google's GSuite and Microsoft Office. Microsoft released new office every…
I don’t remember Google being this interesting. Ever. It was a good service and very useful, but nothing like this. It was not astonishing. The tech was mildly interesting, but most of all very useful.
This comes at the price of now both OpenAI and Wolfram getting access to your queries (when you use the plugin, of course). I’m hoping we don’t slide into a future where you either have to give up on confidentiality and privacy or else can’t use any “modern” tools anymore.
How is this different than Google/WA today?
Last paragraph: I see what’s happening now as a historic moment. For well over half a century the statistical and symbolic approaches to what we might call “AI” evolved largely separately. But now, in ChatGPT + Wolfram they’re being brought together. And while we’re still just at the beginning with this, I think we can reasonably expect tremendous power in the combination—and in a sense a new paradigm for “AI-like co…