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0 pointsmcintyre19942h ago0 comments

> Can't wait until we learn to harness it to supercharge the most important and valuable thing we do as a human society in modern times: stuff increasingly intrusive ads in front of everyone at all times.

Wasn’t it used for that before anything else? Google invented transformers and had LLMs internally before chatgpt got released. Presumably they were using them for ads, because their public demos were insane things like talking to the moon.

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pixelesque2h ago

> Wasn’t it used for that before anything else? Google invented transformers and had LLMs internally before chatgpt got released.

According to friends who worked at Google (no direct knowledge myself, so don't know exactly how true it is), they mostly sat on the tech. Google News had internal prototypes of using them to expand/contract/summarise and/or add details/context to news articles and translate them to different languages, but it was never fully productised.

Then after ChatGPT got popular, sudden panic to start using them in products company-wide.

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pixelesque2h ago

> Wasn’t it used for that before anything else? Google invented transformers and had LLMs internally before chatgpt got released.

Then after ChatGPT got popular, sudden panic to start using them in products company-wide.

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