Oddbean new post about login | logout People who laugh out current generative AI revolution are just mentally retarded: “looking at LLMs as chatbots is the same as looking at early computers as calculators. We're seeing an emergence of a whole new computing paradigm, and it is very early” Read more at: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1707437820045062561 . Generative AI revolution, particularly LLM part of it, is very different to old classic AI
@efa2e20e The computer had to do something revolutionary before people responded. VisiCalc, the Web, etc. If it stayed a big iron machine crunching numbers for a bank, nothing happens. Likewise, creating neat photos, songs, or text cannot possibly be the killer application for this stuff or it is indeed a nothingburger. There needs to be breakout creation. It can have all the potential, but until then it's like using a time machine to catch yesterdays weather report