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by auggierose 1148 days ago
Personally, I feel AlphaGo was the biggest deal ever. It put AI truly on the map. OpenAI is just a corollary to that, and would not exist without DeepMind in the first place.
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> Personally, I feel AlphaGo was the biggest deal ever.

Right, but the cashier at McDonalds is using ChatGPT for night school.

That's probably true, because OpenAI was formed just two months after AlphaGo defeated the European Go champion Fan Hui.

But Google has missed a lot of opportunities since then, and is now trying to catch up.