Wow. When I use GPT-4, Ive had a distinct sense of “I bet this is what it would have felt like to use one of the earliest computers”. Until this post I didnt realize how literal that sense might be.
This is a really cool and apt analogy—computers and LLM scaffolding really do seem like the same abstraction. Thinking this way seems illuminating as to where we might be heading.
Wow. When I use GPT-4, Ive had a distinct sense of “I bet this is what it would have felt like to use one of the earliest computers”. Until this post I didnt realize how literal that sense might be.
This is a really cool and apt analogy—computers and LLM scaffolding really do seem like the same abstraction. Thinking this way seems illuminating as to where we might be heading.