PieFed.WorldWhere do you think we'd be in the current AI craze if the pandemic never happened?
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Disclaimer: I am not informed about the development of AI, LLMs, etc. or what we were doing with them pre-covid.
I remember them exploding when everyone was doing at home/ hybrid classes, and I wonder how much of an effect on things that really had.
Most of the major developments that lead to the public stuff happened between 2017-2021. Transformers was the big one that made scaling a thing. Altman pushed in a stupid direction that caused a lot of the nonsense, like turning the name βOpen AIβ into an oxymoron.
There are some aspects of alignment that point at political corruption and planning with nefarious intent that fits in with the present political bullshit too, but that is very complicated to explain in any depth. If you were to search the token vocabulary, you will find dubious elements are present in compound multi word tokens that disproportionately represent a single political camp, likewise with religious media, and science denialism. Much of that stuff dates from 2019 or before.