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by sillysaurusx 4 days ago
My eighty year old father brought up OpenAI unprompted a few months ago. At this point it’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t heard of OpenAI.
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Depends entirely on whether they leave CNBC playing as background noise
Yes. Can’t wag the dog without centralized networks; even if they’re now Meta algorithms, they’re still there.
I think my point still stands 8)

I know plenty of people who will put the letters A and I together and get rather confused about what on earth is going on but very few of those would mention any co apart from Microsoft, Google, Facebook or errm Twitter.

No one has a bloody clue about all this stuff apart from us lot and we have no real idea about it either!

Oooh tulips!

Is your point that the name people actually remember is ChatGPT? Okay, let's say the actually popular name that threatens to become the Kleenex of LLMs. ChatGPT.