ChatGPT is not like "The Transistor" or "Electricity" or "The Industrial Revolution". It's not even that important, from a historical standpoint - despite what the AI Industry wants you to believe.

Having worked in tech since the dawn of the World Wide Web, let me tell you where I think it really fits in that context.

Deeper Dive video coming soon to My Other Channel: ‪@SpecAgain‬

00:00 Introduction
04:25 Brief Timeline of computing
12:51 What LLMs are, really
13:53 The implications
16:58 What's really different this time

Ted Chiang's Essay:
www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgp…

Telephone Operators:
conversableeconomist.com/2024/08/19/telephone-oper…
conversableeconomist.com/2020/02/14/telephone-swit…

1950s Computing:
www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/#169ebb…
www.cs.cmu.edu/scs25/history
people.csail.mit.edu/saltzer/Multics/CTSS-Document…

Compression Artifacts in Medical Imaging:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4026463/

Altman's Transistor Quote:
   • The Next Frontier: Sam Altman on the Futur...  

Nothing Fundamental Changed in 70 years quote:
   • Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)