ChatBots Explained: Not Conscious, No Revolution — Just Searching's Next Step
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ChatGPT is not like "The Transistor" or "Electricity" or "The Industrial Revolution". It's not even that important, from a historical standpoint - despite what the AI Industry wants you to believe.
Having worked in tech since the dawn of the World Wide Web, let me tell you where I think it really fits in that context.
Deeper Dive video https://youtu.be/7SytuSS3sIc on My Other Channel: @SpecAgain
00:00 Introduction
04:25 Brief Timeline of computing
12:51 What LLMs are, really
13:53 The implications
16:58 What's really different this time
Ted Chiang's Essay:
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
Telephone Operators:
https://conversableeconomist.com/2024/08/19/telephone-operators-the-elimination-of-a-job/
https://conversableeconomist.com/2020/02/14/telephone-switchboard-operators-rise-and-fall/
1950s Computing:
https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/#169ebbe2ad45559efbc6eb35720ba5f3
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/scs25/history
https://people.csail.mit.edu/saltzer/Multics/CTSS-Documents/CTSS_50th_anniversary_web_03.pdf
Compression Artifacts in Medical Imaging:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4026463/
Altman's Transistor Quote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0XpTAD_8Q&t=1263s
Nothing Fundamental Changed in 70 years quote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ&t=56s
ChatGPT is not like "The Transistor" or "Electricity" or "The Industrial Revolution". It's not even that important, from a historical standpoint - despite what the AI Industry wants you to believe.
Having worked in tech since the dawn of the World Wide Web, let me tell you where I think it really fits in that context.
Deeper Dive video https://youtu.be/7SytuSS3sIc on My Other Channel: @SpecAgain
00:00 Introduction
04:25 Brief Timeline of computing
12:51 What LLMs are, really
13:53 The implications
16:58 What's really different this time
Ted Chiang's Essay:
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
Telephone Operators:
https://conversableeconomist.com/2024/08/19/telephone-operators-the-elimination-of-a-job/
https://conversableeconomist.com/2020/02/14/telephone-switchboard-operators-rise-and-fall/
1950s Computing:
https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/#169ebbe2ad45559efbc6eb35720ba5f3
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/scs25/history
https://people.csail.mit.edu/saltzer/Multics/CTSS-Documents/CTSS_50th_anniversary_web_03.pdf
Compression Artifacts in Medical Imaging:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4026463/
Altman's Transistor Quote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0XpTAD_8Q&t=1263s
Nothing Fundamental Changed in 70 years quote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ&t=56s
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