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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The "Attention Is All You Need" paper that birthed modern AI came out in 2017. Before Transformers, "LLMs" were pretty much just Markov chains and statistical language models.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You're right, I thought that paper came out in 2016.