When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine

What ChatGPT represented wasn't a technological breakthrough but an interface revolution—making AI accessible through natural language conversation, all while operating an infrastructure able to sustain the resulting workload and to keep the user experience smooth. This mirrors how the web browser, particularly Mosaic and later Netscape, didn't inv... See more

Such a thing is compelling not because it offers  answers  in the form of text, but because it makes it possible to play text—all the text, almost—like an instrument.

That outcome could be revelatory! But a huge obstacle stands in the way of achieving it: people, who don’t know what the hell to make of LLMs, ChatGPT, and all the other gene

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