A History of Disbelief
First came computers programmed with assembly language,
And those who were still soldering transistors by hand cried out in disbelief.
Then came higher-level programming languages,
And those meticulously moving registers cried out in disbelief.
Next arrived libraries, frameworks, and the open-source revolution,
And those coding everything from scratch cried out in disbelief.
Then came machine learning with its feature engineering,
And those constructing intricate control flows cried out in disbelief.
Then deep learning arose with millions of artificial neurons and vast training data,
And those laboriously handcrafting features cried out in disbelief.
Then came transformers, wielding billions of parameters trained on the world's textual knowledge,
And those training models from scratch cried out in disbelief.
Then came ChatGPT, enabling natural, human-like conversations with AI,
And those convinced such capabilities were decades away cried out in disbelief.
Inspiration: Education in the age of AI, Dale Lane, TEDxWinchester