>Am I the only one becoming less impressed by LLMs as time passes
Jaron Lanier has some ideas about the space in between turing test and blade runner.
The first film goers, watching simple black and white movies thought that they were uncanny. A train coming towards the screen, would make audiences jump and duck. When people first heard gramophones, they reported that it is indistinguishable from live orchestra.
As we learn a technology, we learn to recognize. Get a feel for its limitations and strengths. The ability to detect that technology, is a skill. Less impressive over time.
It's hard not to be impressed when a thing does a thing that you did not think it could do.
We didn't move on to being unimpressed when the thing cannot do the thing we thought it be able to do.
Jaron Lanier has some ideas about the space in between turing test and blade runner.
The first film goers, watching simple black and white movies thought that they were uncanny. A train coming towards the screen, would make audiences jump and duck. When people first heard gramophones, they reported that it is indistinguishable from live orchestra.
As we learn a technology, we learn to recognize. Get a feel for its limitations and strengths. The ability to detect that technology, is a skill. Less impressive over time.
It's hard not to be impressed when a thing does a thing that you did not think it could do.
We didn't move on to being unimpressed when the thing cannot do the thing we thought it be able to do.