Tell HN: Happy LLM Day

4 pointschristina973mo ago7 comments

ChatGPT came out exactly 3 years ago. Whether you like it or hate it, it has had a huge impact on our industry and to an extent the world.

How has it changed your professional or personal life? What do you think the next 3 years will bring?

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bigyabai3mo ago

ChatGPT was not the first LLM, or even LLM product. If I had to venerate any AI-based accomplishment, it would be the publishing of Attention is All You Need and subsequent documentation of the transformer architecture.

awwaiid3mo ago

Fine... I guess it could be happy ChatGPT day then? Putting a hosted version of it out on the internet and letting people use it is very clearly a very small step, it even surprised OpenAI that it caught so many people's attention. But it did. It is an interesting milestone that shows what happens when you connect people with a new technology, a new concept, and see what they do with it.

bigyabai3mo ago

Happy nothing day. I don't celebrate brand anniversaries.

In the grand scheme of things, I think ChatGPT is unsustainable product slop anyways. OpenAI's innovation is sporadic and shallow, and the few cutting-edge things they make aren't open whatsoever. Their benefit to humanity is marginal, their value proposition is ridiculous and the potential to disrupt them is already playing out. Qwen's free tier is so good that I haven't used ChatGPT since 4o launched.

Webstir3mo ago

I’m looking for work and can’t feed my family.

I think the next three years will bring more people out of work and looking for food to feed their families.

I think in the next three years it will bring greater concentration of wealth to the elite, together with greater surveillance capabilities for the rest of us.

I think it will squander untold natural resources and continue exacerbating climate change for, at best, marginal returns.

Yeah, happy day.

rvz3mo ago

That my friend is what the actual definition of "AGI" is.

Multiply that by 100 million.

Webstir3mo ago

Please elaborate?

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bigyabai3mo ago

awwaiid3mo ago

bigyabai3mo ago

Happy nothing day. I don't celebrate brand anniversaries.

Webstir3mo ago

I’m looking for work and can’t feed my family.

I think the next three years will bring more people out of work and looking for food to feed their families.

I think in the next three years it will bring greater concentration of wealth to the elite, together with greater surveillance capabilities for the rest of us.

I think it will squander untold natural resources and continue exacerbating climate change for, at best, marginal returns.

Yeah, happy day.

rvz3mo ago

That my friend is what the actual definition of "AGI" is.

Multiply that by 100 million.

Webstir3mo ago

Please elaborate?

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse