The microwave oven was a byproduct of inventing radar, and radar was not invented for the purpose of heating food.
Radar continued to evolve (klystron, traveling-wave tube, etc.) and eventually led to huge technological developments like satellite communications and WiFi, while microwave ovens stagnated since their first commercial release in 1947.
In the 1970s they got cheaper/smaller/more reliable, but those 70s models are functionally identical to ones we use today. Half a century has passed and either model will safely heat up your dinner, in the same way, in the same amount of time.
LLMs are radar. ChatGPT is the microwave oven, or perhaps just a radar dish crudely pointed at a pizza. We will see a lot more uses for LLMs beyond things like ChatGPT.
Radar continued to evolve (klystron, traveling-wave tube, etc.) and eventually led to huge technological developments like satellite communications and WiFi, while microwave ovens stagnated since their first commercial release in 1947.
In the 1970s they got cheaper/smaller/more reliable, but those 70s models are functionally identical to ones we use today. Half a century has passed and either model will safely heat up your dinner, in the same way, in the same amount of time.
LLMs are radar. ChatGPT is the microwave oven, or perhaps just a radar dish crudely pointed at a pizza. We will see a lot more uses for LLMs beyond things like ChatGPT.