The most significant but underappreciated impact of LLMs is making virtually all of human knowledge instantly and reliably accessible to anyone in the world, a bigger shift than search engines ever were.

208:04with much less inference compute than behind the scenes? Maybe some. Like, there are some ways to get better figures, but if you ask today, ..."Draw a flowchart of X, Y, Z," it's most of the time terrible. And it is a very simple task for a human. I think it's almost easier sometimes to draw something than to write something. - Yeah, the multimodal understanding does feel like something that is odd...

208:28...that it's not better solved. - I think we're not saying one obvious thing that we're not realizing, that's a gigantic thing that's hard to measure, which is making all of human knowledge accessible— —to the entire world. One thing that is hard to articulate is the huge difference between Google Search and an LLM. I feel like I can basically ask an LLM anything and get an answer, and it's doing less and less hallucination.

209:04And that means understanding my own life, figuring out a career trajectory, solving the problems all around me, learning about anything through human history. I feel like nobody's really talking about that, because they just immediately take it for granted that this is awesome. That's why everybody's using it: because you get answers for stuff. Think about the impact across time. This is not just in the United States; it's all across the world.

209:37Kids throughout the world being able to learn these ideas— the impact that has across time is probably... ...That's the real impact. Talk about GDP; it won't be like a leap. It'll be... ...that's how we get to Mars, that's how we build these things, that's how we have a million new OpenAIs and all the innovation from there. It's this quiet force that permeates everything: human knowledge. - I agree with you. In a sense, it makes knowledge more accessible,