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> Before today, access to AI was gated by firms like Google Did you miss Talk-to-Transformer, GANbreeder and Stable Diffusion? Did you ignore GPT-J and the GPT

> Before today, access to AI was gated by firms like Google Did you miss Talk-to-Transformer, GANbreeder and Stable Diffusion? Did you ignore GPT-J and the GPT-2 quantizations that existed long before LLaMA or ChatGPT were common parts of everyday discussion? I think a lot of people telling the history of AI completely miss the zeroth and first waves of AI generation. ChatGPT and GPT4 are asymptotes of that intelligent scaling - past this point, very little will impress the average person.

ignoramous 3y ago
Yes I did, because they weren't as good. The good stuff was all within the four walls at Google and probably one or two other companies? As a consumer, Google Search, Translate, Maps, Earth, Photos all have had impressive capabilities for a long time now; and I don't think any upstart could have hoped to compete with that. I, of course, think that is no longer the case with many researchers freeing themselves from the Google / BigTech Vortex and striking out on their own, having a very different strategy to enable other upstarts around them.