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Bandwidth of human communication

  • 1: Before the birth of language
  • 2: Language was born a little thicker.
  • 3: Writing was born
    • The biggest change is that humans can now communicate through written records without having to communicate directly with each other.
    • The bandwidth is written a bit thicker, but of course it means “for those who can read fluently”
      • A disparity was created between those who could read and those who couldn’t.
      • Created a difference in reading and writing speed.
        • When people communicated by voice, they were disciplined by slow output.
        • Asynchronous communication has been created, allowing for more efficient input from the reader.
  • 4: The amount of written text accumulated and increased as it did not disappear.
    • The invention of letterpress printing also encouraged
    • Libraries began to collect books and classify them systematically so that it was easy to find what you wanted.
    • Human “librarians” now help people find texts to read
  • 5: Search engine appeared.
    • Now a non-human program can find the text to read.
    • Now available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week because it’s not human.
    • The development of the Internet has made it possible to obtain reference materials from the comfort of your own home.
  • 6: Emergence of LLM (current)
    • Instead of returning “already written” search results, they are now “generated” to meet the user’s needs.
    • This has caused programmers using GPT-4 to “stop searching on Google” and “it is more efficient to ask GPT-4 first”.
    • So human input efficiency has increased.
    • In the near future in fields other than programming, “humans will only use search engines directly for special applications.
  • 7: Future
    • The search behind the AI now in 6 is a search engine born in 5
    • However, as the need for human use of search engines decreases, naturally “search engines optimized for AI searches” will be created.
    • Expressed it in the form of wider bandwidth between record and AI.

remarks

  • This figure depicts the speed of human “input.”

    • download bandwidth” so to speak.
    • Speed of output, upload bandwidth consumed digital bandwidth in the form of “talking video instead of text” format change
    • The speed itself hasn’t changed much since the days of the primitive 2
  • communication

  • bandwidth

  • character

  • search engine LLM


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