How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history | The Economist

May 12, 2023

https://www.economist.com/essay/2023/04/20/how-ai-could-change-computing-culture-and-the-course-of-history

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As a way of presenting knowledge, llms promise to take both the practical and personal side of books further, in some cases abolishing them altogether. An obvious application of the technology is to turn bodies of knowledge into subject matter for chatbots. Rather than reading a corpus of text, you will question an entity trained on it and get responses based on what the text says. Why turn pages when you can interrogate a work as a whole?
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