True, yet we're still all here talking about them with plenty of questions and confusion, and people outside of ML are suddenly curious to know what's behind th

True, yet we're still all here talking about them with plenty of questions and confusion, and people outside of ML are suddenly curious to know what's behind things like ChatGPT, unaware of the history. FWIW one of the founders of Cohere (where this article comes from) was Aidan Gomez who was one of the transformer paper authors.