Comment by js8
3 hours ago
Well depends what you mean by peak. I was answering parent's question of what LLM's CAN do. It's not about peak of technology or humanity itself.
LLMs (or specifically GPT algorithm) are 8 years old. It has matured as a technology. I am not sure how you imagine it being significantly improved, from a user point of view, without some kind of paradigm shift (i.e. something significantly different from GPT or LLM).
Although I can imagine one important social innovation yet to come - a generally available big public LLM, that "anybody can train". We had a technology of "encyclopedia" for years (famously Brittanica); yet the concept of Wikipedia has been a truly new take on encyclopedia.
Also, new kinds of AI might emerge - for example we might formalize all types of human reasoning and build a reasoning AI, as well a model of human language, from scratch rather by training via GPT (and thus, more understandable and potentially smaller). But that won't be an LLM.
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