Demis Hassabis has drawn a parallel between coal for the industrial revolution, and the internet for an intelligence revolution of LLMs.

· Bits and Bobs 7/6/26
  • Demis Hassabis has drawn a parallel between coal for the industrial revolution, and the internet for an intelligence revolution of LLMs.
    • That's a fundamentally extractive claim.
    • Coal isn't spontaneously generated, like content on the internet used to be.
    • A better metaphor for the internet is a farm.

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