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AI - in this case, LLMs and their ecosystem - is an incredibly impactful technology. I would put it up with:

- the printing press

- radio

- tv

- personal computers

- internet

in terms of important contributors to human civilization. We live in the information age, and all of these are significant advances in information.

The printing press allowed small organizations to create written information. It de-centralized the power of the written text and encouraged the rapid growth of literacy.

Radio allowed humans to communicate quickly across long distances

TV allowed humans to communicate visually across long distances - what we see is very important to the way we process information

PCs allowed for digitizing of information - made it denser, more efficient, easier to store and generate larger datasets

The internet is a way to transfer large amounts of this complex digital information even more quickly across large distances

AI is the ability to process this giant lake of digital information we've made for ourselves. We can no longer handle all the information that we create. We need automated ways to do it. LLMs, which translate information to text, is a way for humans to parse giant datasets in our native tongue. It's massive.