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by revelio 1123 days ago
It may seem overnight if you weren't following it, but I've followed AI progress for a long time now. I was reading the Facebook bAbI test paper in 2015:

https://research.facebook.com/downloads/babi/

There's been a lot of progress since then, but it's also nearly 10 years later. Progress isn't actually instant or overnight. It's just that OpenAI spent a ton of money to scale it up then stuck an accessible chat interface on top of tech that was previously being mostly ignored.