How ChatGPT ate the very scientific field that birthed it.
Client: Quanta Magazine
By 2025, everyone knew AI was eating the world. What few of us knew was: who got eaten first? As it turns out, it was the very people who helped discover large language models in the first place.
In this longform “oral history,” nearly two dozen scientists in the field of natural language processing describe the moments — dawning realizations, elated encounters and at least one “existential crisis” — that changed their world. And ours.
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How ChatGPT ate the very scientific field that birthed it.
Client: Quanta Magazine
By 2025, everyone knew AI was eating the world. What few of us knew was: who got eaten first? As it turns out, it was the very people who helped discover large language models in the first place.
In this longform “oral history,” nearly two dozen scientists in the field of natural language processing describe the moments — dawning realizations, elated encounters and at least one “existential crisis” — that changed their world. And ours.