I don’t think this is a balanced view on LLMs. I particularly found it weird to liken LLM creation as akin to the global race for a covid vaccine.
There are a lot of assumptions about the pace of improvement (which is already tapering rapidly). There is no consideration for the inherent biases that are built into these LLMs. LLMs make shit up all the time. They don’t think. They can be easily tricked and manipulated at multiple stages in the training and use.
I think LLMs will change things for a lot of industries, absolutely, but there is a limit.
I think this is overly negative. There have been multiple significant advances in cancer treatment over the past 10 years. It just depends which type you get.
I bought faux-meat burger patties at an Aussie supermarket recently which were cheaper than the cheapest real-meat products. Was actually really really surprised to see the inflection point was reached.
I once stayed in an AirBnB north of Dubrovnik. Driving through Bosnia for 20 minutes and doing 4 passport controls at a time was a real pain. Also had to be careful to switch off data roaming as the towers weren’t in the EU so the data charges went through the roof.
I think it influenced it positively. It led me to computer science and taught me team work and online collaboration skills that I still use today.