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A comment on "Attention is all you need" paper digested. Parent comment

Re:"Attention is all you need" paper digested by dinvlad on Saturday October 07, 2023 @10:14PM (#37807284)
Right, but what is their "world impact"?
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Re:"Attention is all you need" paper digested by esafak on Sunday October 08, 2023 @01:01AM (#37807987)
That of allowing people to generate, synthesize, and transform all major modalities of media, from text, to audio and video, for peanuts, instantly.

They create immense economic value and increase productivity.

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Re:"Attention is all you need" paper digested by KptMarchewa on Sunday October 08, 2023 @01:16AM (#37808042)
It's deniable right now. Future looks bright for them, but impact _now_ is more smoke than actual effect.
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Re:"Attention is all you need" paper digested by dinvlad on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:04AM (#37816830)
On top of that, they face massive lawsuits for violating existing IP etc. It's far from a proven business model indeed (heck, OpenAI isn't even profitable yet), and even further as a technology (because it is so inherently unreliable - no matter the model size).

So atm they just sell hype, and not much more.

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