Ben Gilbert: belief

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…But it can do things like obviously translate text. Google’s been doing that for a long time. But GPT-2, you could do stuff like make up a fake news headline, give it to GPT-2, and it would write a whole article. You would read it and you’d be like, sounds like it was written by a bot. But again, there was no front door to it for normal people. You had to really be willing to wait in the muck to use this thing. Then the next year in June of 2020, GPT-3 comes out. Still no front door user interface to the model, but it’s very good. GPT-2 showed the promise of what was possible. GPT-3, it’s starting to be in the conversation of can this thing pass the Turing test? You have a hard time distinguishing between articles that GPT wrote and articles that humans wrote. It’s very good, and there starts to be a lot of hype around this thing. Even though consumers aren’t really using it, the broader awareness is that there’s something interesting on the horizon. I think the number of AI pitch decks that VCs are seeing is starting to tick up around this time. As is the NVIDIA stock price. Then in the next year, in the summer of 2021, Microsoft releases GitHub Copilot using GPT-3. This is the first, not just Microsoft product that comes out with GPT baked into it, but first……

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