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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

If you've been paying attention to the field, you'd see it's been a slow steady march. The technology that LLMs are based in were first published in 2016/2017, ChatGPT was the third iteration of the same base model.

Thats not even accounting for all the work done with RNNs and LSTMs prior to that, and even more prior.

Its definitely a major breakthrough, and very similar to what CNNs did for computer vision further back. But like computer vision, advancements have been made in other areas (like the generative space) and haven't followed a linear path of progress.