Author says "It is the most amazing thing I have seen an LLM do, and it was unprompted, entirely accidental." and then jumps back to the "beginning of the story". Including talking about a trip to Canada.
Skip to the section headed "The Ultimate Test" for the resolution of the clickbait of "the most amazing thing...". (According to him, it correctly interpreted a line in an 18th century merchant ledger using maths and logic)
The new model may or may not be great at handwriting but I found the author's constant repetition about how amazing it was irritating enough to stop reading and to wonder if the article itself was slop-written.
"users have reported some truly wild things"
"the results were shocking"
"the most amazing thing I have seen an LLM do"
"exciting and frightening all at once"
"the most astounding result I have ever seen"
"made the hair stand up on the back of my neck"
Skip to the section headed "The Ultimate Test" for the resolution of the clickbait of "the most amazing thing...". (According to him, it correctly interpreted a line in an 18th century merchant ledger using maths and logic)