Benedict Evans
Here are a few slides from a Benedict Evans presentation from December 2023:
In a recent essay (April 2024), Benedict Evans writes: “We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone, right now? Do Large Language Models become universal tools that can do ‘any’ task, or do we wrap them in single-purpose apps, and build thousands of new companies around that?… We would still have an orders of magnitude change in how much can be automated, and how many use-cases can be found for LLMs, but they still need to be found and built one by one. The change would be that these new use-cases would be things that are still automated one-at-a-time, but that could not have been automated before, or that would have needed far more software (and capital) to automate. That would make LLMs the new SQL, not the new HAL9000.”
