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A computer program that has the agency to google a problem, interpret the results, and respond to a human was science fiction just 10 years ago. The entire field of natural language processing has been solved and it's insane.



OpenAI's whole business is impressing you with whiz-bang sci-fi sound and fury.

This is a bad thing because it means they gave up on solving actual problems and entered the snake oil business.


Honestly, I think that if in 2020 you had asked me whether we would be able to do this in 2025, I would've guessed no, with a fairly high confidence. And I was aware of GPT back then.




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