alt Hacker NewsWell, we did build airplanes out of steel, but there are better (lighter) materials avaiable. But the developement of car engines did directly enabled airplane engines. Not sure if this is the right analogy path, but I kind of suspect similar with LLM's/transformers. They will be a important part.
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nutjob2 • today at 12:37 PM
> Well, we did build airplanes out of steel, but there are better (lighter) materials avaiable.
That's exactly my point. In this analogy LLMs are steel, but the flying things are made out of aluminum, lithium and titanium and not steel. We need a better idea than LLMs because LLMs's are not suddenly going to turn into something they are not.
An important stepping stone, perhaps. But I don’t think the final AGI thing will necessarily contain LLMs.