One thing I think is weird in the debate is it seems people are equating LLMs with CPU’s, this whole category of devices that process and calculate and can have infinite architecture and innovation. But what if LLMs are more like a specific implementation like DSP’s, sure lots of interesting ways to make things sound better, but it’s never going to fundamentally revolutionize computing as a whole.

I think LLMs are more like the invention of high level programming languages when all we had before was assembly. Computers will be programmable and operable in “natural language”—for all of its imprecision and mushiness.