ChatGPT was not the first LLM, or even LLM product. If I had to venerate any AI-based accomplishment, it would be the publishing of Attention is All You Need and subsequent documentation of the transformer architecture.
Fine... I guess it could be happy ChatGPT day then? Putting a hosted version of it out on the internet and letting people use it is very clearly a very small step, it even surprised OpenAI that it caught so many people's attention. But it did. It is an interesting milestone that shows what happens when you connect people with a new technology, a new concept, and see what they do with it.
Happy nothing day. I don't celebrate brand anniversaries.
In the grand scheme of things, I think ChatGPT is unsustainable product slop anyways. OpenAI's innovation is sporadic and shallow, and the few cutting-edge things they make aren't open whatsoever. Their benefit to humanity is marginal, their value proposition is ridiculous and the potential to disrupt them is already playing out. Qwen's free tier is so good that I haven't used ChatGPT since 4o launched.
I think the next three years will bring more people out of work and looking for food to feed their families.
I think in the next three years it will bring greater concentration of wealth to the elite, together with greater surveillance capabilities for the rest of us.
I think it will squander untold natural resources and continue exacerbating climate change for, at best, marginal returns.
It is the complete replacement of "knowledge workers" in multiple industries with AI agents to automate their jobs.
Whenever you hear the owners of these LLMs talking about "abundance of more jobs", "AGI" and "more productivity", they (the owners) are talking past us.
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