The largest impact of GenAI currently is probably automating the processing of PDFs. The number of man-hours spent worldwide extracting information from documents is wild.
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A good way to judge defensibility of a startup in GenAI is to ask the question “if a better model comes out tomorrow, does it make my product better or obsolete?”
People are overestimating the short-term potential of LLMs (productionizing is tough) while underestimating their medium-term potential. With a proper system (UX/UI/agents) around GPT-4-level models, GenAI is set to redefine human-computer interactions.
Turing's thoughts on RL are very much in line with @ylecun self-supervised learning perspective! "The use of punishments and rewards can at best be a part of the teaching process. [...] By the time a child has learnt to repeat ‘Casabianca’ he would probably feel very sore indeed"
Great survey for people confused about the relationship between control theory and RL:
arxiv.org/pdf/1806.09460…
arxiv.org/pdf/1806.09460…