The AI Landslide Is Happening

When it comes to AI changing the tech world, we’re at a juncture where you’ve either:

  • seen some shit with your own eyes or you believe your imagination of where this is going
  • or, you haven’t and you’re dubious

It feels like people are living in a fractured reality. For the moment, that is stable. But reality is not completely subjective. The way we each get to live in the world is shaped by things outside of our subjective perspective. That is going to hit all of us, regardless of what we believe.

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LLMs think

An “AI brain”, rendered by ChatGPT

It’s interesting to see scientific people categorically reject the notion that LLMs “think”. People write them off as “fancy autocomplete” or regurgitating their source material, and conclude that they do something categorically different than what humans can do. That it’s all just a parlor trick. I think1 that’s wrong.

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