Comment by Covenant0028
1 month ago
> Coding assistants and LLM's in general are the single most awe-inspiring achievement of humanity in my lifetime
Landing a man on the moon is way more impressive. Finding several vaccines for a once in a century pandemic within a year of its outbreak is and achievement that in its impact and importance dwarfs what the entire LLM industry put together has achieved. The near-complete eradication of polio, once again, way more important and impactful.
Those are all good things, but with the current AI boom we've invented something with the potential to invent those kinds of things on its own, if not now then in the near future. It's far more important and impactful to invent a digital mind that can invent an arbitrary number of vaccines than to just invent one vaccine, no matter how hard it was to invent the vaccine by hand.