Two Old Reads Help Chart the Future of Large-Language Models

As a follow up to my post from yesterday on @BainAlerts in essence distributing @OpenAi’s large language model #ChatGPT into enterprises (@WorldofCocaCola being one of the first), here are two old reads that nevertheless help understanding the dynamics that will play out as #LLMs hit the market.

Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma describes how new breakthrough technologies make it into the mainstream when at first, they can’t quite do yet what they promise to do, and are also too expensive – as is the case for LLMs.

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)

Amazon.com: The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change): 9781633691780: Christensen, Clayton M.: Books

Tom Standage’s book The Victorian Internet riffs on the hype and the reality of a new technology, using the introduction of the telegraph in the 19th century as an example.

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers: Standage, Tom: 9781620405925: Amazon.com: Books