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by gertop 479 days ago
I thought the papers that jump started the revolution came from Google?
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Indeed. And the papers were about doing better translation of char sequences, essentially the tech emerged as linguistics improvement for language. Then someone realised the parrot learns enough ZIP and JPEG alongside and can spit back hazy memories of it all.

the one still super useful thing OpenAI ever released must’ve been Whisper. But they could’ve been much more open for sure.

Hinton. And if you'd ask himself probably Schmidthuber.