This past week, ChatGPT was released and has been gradually permeating into the twitter feeds and discord channels of various in-groups across the tech world. On multiple occasions, anecdotes have been highlighted to me that indicate that it is capable of solving essentially any common programming question, and is able to scale to even graduate level CS algorithm questions. It can also draw out of large body of text accurate summaries that gracefully express the core thesis. This follows the popularity of image generation models, DALL-E and the like.
It's really too early to tell what we are looking at here. But it is clear that a fundamental revolution of technology is happening.... (read 632 more words →)