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Yes, it's quite ironic isn't it that the big AI progress is being made not by the cool kids at Alphabet and Meta and the like, but in a place backed by "boring"
by red_admiral 4y ago
Yes, it's quite ironic isn't it that the big AI progress is being made not by the cool kids at Alphabet and Meta and the like, but in a place backed by "boring" old Microsoft. Whatever next - Bing becoming actually useful, perhaps?
- threeseed 4y agoThe fundamental research in the AI space (that OpenAI depends so much on) originally came from Alphabet and Meta. They just never thought to productise it.
- theGnuMe 4y agoOpenAI has taken it to the next level though.
- simpleladle 4y agoThey did; perhaps not in ways that were immediately obvious to the general public. Back in 2014, they created attention to improve how RNNs handled long sequences, an effort driven by google translate. Same goes for when they created the transformer architecture. The first product to see an improvement was also translate. They simply never exposed the bare language models to the public a la OpenAI style with GPT3