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by yubblegum 215 days ago
> a giant leap in natural language processing, useful in some situations and the biggest scam of all time.

I agree with this assessment (reminds of bitcoin frankly), possibly adding that the insights this tech gave us into language (in general) via the embedding hi-dim space is a somewhat profound advance in our knowledge, besides the new superpowers in NLP (which are nothing to sniff at).