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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by rubyfan on Sunday December 03, 2023 @03:09PM (#38510301)
Judging by the branding this is just an attempt to capitalize on the mindshare around LLM and GPT. Recall about 5-8 years ago they tried to sell the notion of huge cost savings replacing humans with the jeopardy champion and tech executives ate it up for a while.
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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by kolinko on Sunday December 03, 2023 @08:01PM (#38512515)
Well, they essentially had the same idea as OpenAI with GPT, just they failed to really build it because transformers weren't invented yet.

But their business cases were similar to what we see now with LLMs.

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