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It's kinda crazy how far we've come and how normal it seems to everyone. I remember in like 2016 playing around with neural nets as like a fun coding project. If you asked anyone then most thought even our current level of AI capability wouldn't be until like the later half of this century at best. If you just picked up a random open source model now and transported it then most people would think it was legit just a person on the other side texting you back, either that or they would have their absolute socks blown off in amazement.
I was in high school in 2007, and I pissed off most of my computer science class by saying that in 20 years, programming won't be a job anymore, because our bosses will just be able to tell a computer what they want it to do with plain english language.
You were ahead of me, I still thought it was far fetched until I played with chatGPT 3 at the end of 2020. NN were still mostly shit and training them was shit but the transformer was the big breakthrough. There was gold in them there hills and I knew it was only a matter of time until everyone and their grandma was in the gold rush.
I wonder if it would have accelerated so fast of it wasn't so applicable to the intelligence services in mass surveillance and target acquisition
That's all new. The moment I knew we were all fucked was when I first played with chatGPT 3 near the end of 2020. I was trying to tell people then. Shit, even now but the vast majority just see AI as a stupid useless toy poisoning their FYP with junk content. The vast majority of people still seem totally unaware of what's going on.