Im pretty sure chatbots were a thing before AI. They certainly werent as smart but they did exists.
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morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 days agoI have no idea whether the probabilities are balanced. They claim 5% was AI even before chatgpt was released, which seems pretty off. No one was using LLMs before chatgpt went viral except for researchers.
szczuroarturo@programming.dev 2 days ago
ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 day ago
chat bots have been a thing, for a long time. I mean, a half decently trained Markov can handle social media postings and replies
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 days ago
Chatbots doesn’t mean that they have a real conversation. Some just spammed links from a list of canned responses, or just upvoted the other chat bots to get more visibility, or the just reposted a comment from another user.