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0 pointsechelon1y ago0 comments

> Google is the reason for the current AI boom.

OpenAI is the reason for the current AI boom. Google wasn't productizing anything and didn't put any of this stuff out in the open. Where was their productization of the transformer?

If anything, it should show that Google malinvests. Maybe none of it would have seen the light of day. Only now that they've been threatened are they building products.

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currymj1y ago

The BERT model, which uses the transformer architecture, was deployed by Google for every English language Google search by the end of 2019.

This is about concurrent with OpenAI's release of GPT-2. But GPT-2 was not really a product.

luckydata1y ago

OpenAi just decided they could jump the gun while Google CORRECTLY deemed the tech not ready yet. What you're breaking your neck to find fault with was Google being responsible.

jayd161y ago

They had AI assistants and machine vision aplenty. The current hype cycle seems to stem from the discovery that going big on these models was worth it.

victorbjorklund1y ago

I usef BERT before chatgpt was a thing.

jeffbee1y ago

That you are unaware of the applications of transformers is on you, not them. Search query understanding, search result ranking, translation, voice recognition, all other natural language applications, and generative applications like Gmail Smart Compose are all based on transformer architecture.

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