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Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ... by leonidasv on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @08:42PM (#35969846)
Two years ago we already had GPT-2, that was capable of some problem solving and logic following. It was archaic, sure, it produced a lot of gibberish, yes, but if you followed OpenAI releases closely, you wouldn't think that something like GPT3.5 was "pure science fiction", it would just look as the inevitable evolution of GPT-2 in a couple of years given the right conditions.
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Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ... by ux-app on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @08:47PM (#35969898)
that's pedantic. switch 2 years to 5 years and the point still stands.
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Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ... by edgyquant on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @12:27AM (#35971243)
No it isn’t. Even before transformers people were doing cool things with LSTMs and RNNs before that. People following this space haven’t really been surprised by any of these advancements. It’s a straight forward path imo
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Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ... by canjobear on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @11:43PM (#35971019)
In hindsight it’s an obvious evolution, but in practice vanishingly few people saw it coming.
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Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ... by leonidasv on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @11:37AM (#35976855)
Few people saw it coming in just two years, sure. But most people following this space were already expecting a big evolution like the one we saw in 5-ish years.
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