ChatBots Explained: Not Conscious, No Revolution — Just Searching's Next Step

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#AIHype #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #TechHistory #SoftwareEngineering #AIHallucinations #ComputingHistory #ArtificialIntelligence ChatGPT is not like "The Transistor" or "Electricity" or "The Industrial Revolution". It's not even that important, from a historical standpoint - despite what the AI Industry wants you to believe. Having worked in tech since the dawn of the World Wide Web, let me tell you where I think it really fits in that context. Deeper Dive video https://youtu.be/7SytuSS3sIc on My Other Channel: @SpecAgain 00:00 Introduction 04:25 Brief Timeline of computing 12:51 What LLMs are, really 13:53 The implications 16:58 What's really different this time Ted Chiang's Essay: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web Telephone Operators: https://conversableeconomist.com/2024/08/19/telephone-operators-the-elimination-of-a-job/ https://conversableeconomist.com/2020/02/14/telephone-switchboard-operators-rise-and-fall/ 1950s Computing: https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/#169ebbe2ad45559efbc6eb35720ba5f3 https://www.cs.cmu.edu/scs25/history https://people.csail.mit.edu/saltzer/Multics/CTSS-Documents/CTSS_50th_anniversary_web_03.pdf Compression Artifacts in Medical Imaging: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4026463/ Altman's Transistor Quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0XpTAD_8Q&t=1263s Nothing Fundamental Changed in 70 years quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ&t=56s