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Dan's perspective took a dramatic turn with the advent of generative AI, which he describes as a "word predictor"—a highly advanced autocomplete system. Despite being dismissed by some as a superficial progression, generative AI profoundly surprised him by revealing unexpected depth and understanding.
He emphasizes that, through experimentation, he realized generative AI models possess an embedded understanding of countless concepts across fields—physics, poetry, history, and even abstract notions like love. These models, trained solely on predicting the next word, inadvertently develop comprehensive internal representations of the world, an unexpected and revolutionary breakthrough.