I took humans thousands of years, then hundreds of years, to come to terms with very basic concepts about numbers.

Its amazing to me when people talk about recombining things, or following up on things as somehow lesser work.

People can't separate the perspective they were given when they learned the concepts, that those who developed the concepts didn't have because they didn't exist.

Simple things are hard, or everything simple would have been done hundreds of years ago, and that is certainly not the case. Seeing something others have not noticed is very hard, when we don't have the concepts that the "invisible" things right in front of us will teach us.

When people say this what they mean is that we've had plausibly useful LLMs for around three years, and I would say that is basically true. The stuff before 2023 could barely be classified above the level of an interesting toy.

When people say this what they mean is that we've had plausibly useful LLMs for around three years, and I would say that is basically true.

No, we haven't, for any reasonable definition of L.

Fine, 8 years? That's not a long time