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In retrospect it seems obvious now.

For some. For others with fewer stars in their eyes, it was obvious from the beginning.

the launch of ChatGPT had an amount of hype that was downright confusing for someone who had previously downloaded and fine tuned GPT2. Everyone who hadn't used a language model said it was revolutionary but it was obviously evolutionary

and I'm not sure the progress is linear, it might be logarithmic.

genAI in its current state has some uses.. but I fear that mostly ChatGPT is hallucinating false information of all kinds into the minds of uninformed people who think GPT is actually intelligence.

Everyone who actually works on this stuff, and didn't have ulterior motives in hyping it up to (over)sell it, have been identifying themselves as such and providing context for the hype since the beginning.

The furthest they got before the hype machine took over was introducing the term "stochastic parrot" to popular discourse.

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