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