Shao Meng: My child's slow writing reminds me of early LLMs
On Saturday, Shao Meng accompanied his son in writing a short essay. The child took 100 minutes, while an adult would need only 1-2 minutes. He compared this beginner state to how people felt a few years ago when looking at the earliest batch of LLMs such as gpt-3, glm, Wenxin, and llama, and believes that in two years his child will write better and may even surpass him.
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On Saturday morning I wrote this short little essay together with my son—it really is very short, isn't it? But he spent a full 100 minutes on it, while an adult could probably finish it in 1–2 minutes.
This is the true state of a child just learning to write. It suddenly occurred to me that this may also be how we felt a few years ago when we looked at the earliest batch of LLMs that didn't seem very smart—gpt-3, glm, Ernie, llama—but in another two years, he will surely write better and better, and may even surpass me, an adult.
This is exactly how we get surpassed by AI and left far behind.