Fair point — updated the tagline to 'The complete history of LLMs'. AI as a field goes back decades; this is specifically tracking the transformer/LLM era from 2017 onward
replyMost of "AI" before ChatGPT was just researchers wasting public grant money, eg BLOOM.
replyEasy 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.
replyI would place the beginning of the computer vision hype at 2012 or so when the AlexNet paper came out.
replyAlso an aside, it is mind boggling to me how pre-2021 ML is now ancient history.
This is ignoring ML which has existed for decades.
replyNeural networks, computer vision, sentiment analysis, all of these and more have provided an unspeakable amount of value over the years.
And now it's private companies wasting investor money. Not sure there's much difference between the two.
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