Random thoughts closing out an exciting year for AI & Quantum Computing.

• Large Language Models (LLMs) are not AI.
  • LLMs are a component of AI.
    • Much of intelligence as it interacts with the real world is not reasoning of the sort that language manipulates, but rather, reaction to simuli.
    • The fascination with LLMs will yield to a more balanced approach that takes into account all the infrastructure of intelligence.
• Quantum Computing is making amazing strides
  • In 3 - 5 years we will have genuinely useful commercially available devices which we may still need to access in the cloud.
  • Look for convergence of Quantum Computing with LLMs.
    • LLMs are trigonometric in nature.
      • Digital binary computers, including GPUs, are arithmetic engines.
      • Quantum Computers are trigonometry engines.

Happy New Year in 2025! "ChatGPT, Can you draw me a picture of a quantum computer wishing everyone a happy new year 2025?"