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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Breakthroughs are more or less of a myth. Everything is iterative.

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  • ClamDrinker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Breakthroughs are not a myth. They still happen even when the process is iterative. That page even explains it. The advent of the GAN (2014-2018), which got overtaken by transformers in around 2017 for which GPTs and Diffusion models later got developed on. More hardware is what allowed those technologies to work better and bigger but without those breakthroughs you still wouldnt have the AI boom of today.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I posted it because you claimed non of that happened before 2020.

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      • ClamDrinker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I never claimed anything besides that breakthroughs did happen since you claimed, which is objectively true. You claimed very concretely that AI was the same for over a decade, aka it was the same in at least 2015 if I’m being charitable, all of these things were researched in the last 7-8 years and only became products in the last 5 years.

        Man this is some dishonesty.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Agreed. The only thing that has really changed is how much hardware we can throw at it. ML has existed more or less since the 60s.

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