You've even been to some big data and machine learning conferences over the years to see what was up and maybe see if you could use some of it in your

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You've even been to some big data and machine learning conferences over the years to see what was up and maybe see if you could use some of it in your business.

This is essentially the story of a background task I've been running in my mind the last few years. I remember reading books about the singularity and other wild visions of the future of computing when I was young.

It helped cement me as a techno optimist with a wide eyed belief that it was all coming faster than anyone around me realized.

I still feel this way but I've changed my mind a bit through hard won learnings from fighting with reality and trying to build new things.

For me it has always felt easy to "see around the corner" or kind of easily come up with say 50 versions of the future I expect to happen knowing what is now possible with a certain technology. The way I experience this is when I learn about something new I automatically come up with a slightly modified fuzzy shape of the future. This generates something like 10 - 20 specific ideas and if I find one very interesting personally and have time I start digging and see if I can build something useful.

The one's I don't work on have a good habit of being built by someone else. ChatGPT and LLM's ( Large language models ) are the first technology in my life that sufficiently "magical" that when I extrapolate I can't easily "see around the corner".