A researcher reflects on how AI predictions from their 2016 master's thesis have come true with transformer models and LLMs. They've watched the tools evolve from MATLAB to today's powerful frameworks, and expect dramatic societal change within five years.
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So 2 questions, 2 answers. How far will AI go? It's gonna go as far as we can't even imagine. So you know what, like, you know, like you mentioned that, yes, I was doing my master's in AI and what we all envisioned in 2016 while I was doing this, this was the reality that everybody was envisioning. Like, this is what AI is going to do. This is what all the math behind stuff is gonna do. And I think that has become a reality after the launch of these transformers, all these LLMs, and things have become much easier. You know, you're not building those models on MATLAB or like with small Python libraries anymore. So a lot more powerful tools have come up and now the world has been exposed to it. And living in SF, I could see how things are moving so fast in every domain. I think the world is gonna see a drastic change in the next 5 years.