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Re:Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API by gwd on Monday July 20, 2020 @04:53AM (#23896006)
Whenever someone talks about how AI isn't advancing, I think of this XKCD comic from not too long ago (maybe 2014-ish?), in which "check whether a photo is of a bird" was classified as "virtually impossible".

https://xkcd.com/1425/

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Re:Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API by ForHackernews on Monday July 20, 2020 @04:58AM (#23896028)
Read the alt-text. Photo recognition wasn't impossible in 2014, it was impossible in the 1960s and the 2014-era author was marvelling at how far we'd come / making a joke of how some seemingly-simple problems are hard.
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