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Re:GPT-4 by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @01:53PM (#35155541)
Check on the curve for flight speed sometime, and see what you think of that, and what you would have thought of it during the initial era of powered flight.
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Re:GPT-4 by credit_guy on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @02:14PM (#35155997)
Powered flight certainly progressed for decades before hitting a ceiling. At least 5 decades.

With GPT bots, the technology is only 6 years old. I can easily see it progressing for at least one decade.

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Re:GPT-4 by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:24PM (#35159940)
Maybe a different analogy will make my point better. Compare rocket technology with jet engine technology. Both continued to progress across a vaguely comparable time period, but at no point was one a substitute for the other except in some highly specialized (mostly military-related) cases. It is very clear that language models are very good at something. But are they, to use the analogy, the rocket engine or the jet engine?
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