alt Hacker NewsThere have been at least 3 waves of AI before the LLM generation. 70s , 80s and late 90s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
Early 2010s had a lot of neural networks AI stuff going on and it certainly became a minor hype cycle as well though that kind of resulted in the current LLM wave.
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rsynnott • today at 12:10 PM
There was also a small chatbot bubble around 2014-2016 (Microsoft Tay kinda blew it out of the water, and it never recovered), though companies did seem a bit skittish about using the term 'AI' at that point.
Yes I know that, but those were all largely confined to technology companies and academia. This recent wave seems to affect everything.