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aly
@aly.codes

By 2022 Google Translate had been using transformer models for several years. By 2014 Facebook was using deep convolutional neural nets (DeepFave) for face detection. Literally the things you think were “before LLMs” are either basically indistinguishable from LLMs or their direct predecessors.

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affine
@refinement.systems

seq2seq RNNs were pretty impressive for the time too (many people remember the Tay drama, and it was likely one of these). I guess one could draw a line at "generating text message by message = virtuous ML" and "whole sessions = wretched GenAI" but that's just silly to me.

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