alt Hacker NewsMost of "AI" before ChatGPT was just researchers wasting public grant money, eg BLOOM.
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bigstrat2003 • today at 3:36 PM
And now it's private companies wasting investor money. Not sure there's much difference between the two.
Most of "AI" before ChatGPT was just researchers wasting public grant money, eg BLOOM.
And now it's private companies wasting investor money. Not sure there's much difference between the two.
Easy to forget but there was a ton of industry+investor excitement around computer vision from ~2015-2021, to the extent that the "MLops" niche sprung up around it. This was called AI at the time, and mostly went out the window when general-pupose pretrained models arrived.