I really enjoyed the story of the Daguerreotype. However I would disagree that ChatGPT is currently at that state. I find it broadly useful for a bunch of tasks and have been making heavy use of it (and other LLMs) for years now. Starting with GPT 3.5 and onwards it seems to be more akin to modern photography than to the Daguerreotype.
Edit: Since I have gotten quite a few disagreements, I would like to know why. Firing of a quick question and asking a follow up is so much faster than googling or using wikipedia / combing through reddit threads most of the time. Also its an amazing learning partner, when you want to dabble with something that you have little expertise in. Of course its not perfect, but it seems clearly not in the “We have not yet figured out how to make LLMs useful” state.
I really enjoyed the story of the Daguerreotype. However I would disagree that ChatGPT is currently at that state. I find it broadly useful for a bunch of tasks and have been making heavy use of it (and other LLMs) for years now. Starting with GPT 3.5 and onwards it seems to be more akin to modern photography than to the Daguerreotype.
Edit: Since I have gotten quite a few disagreements, I would like to know why. Firing of a quick question and asking a follow up is so much faster than googling or using wikipedia / combing through reddit threads most of the time. Also its an amazing learning partner, when you want to dabble with something that you have little expertise in. Of course its not perfect, but it seems clearly not in the “We have not yet figured out how to make LLMs useful” state.