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> If you’d have presented anybody reading this with ChatGPT two years ago, they simply would not have believed it was possible.

2 years ago, Google Lambda was available internally for dogfooding. The hype was high for a couple months, and then it dropped off after the entertainment and novelty value wanned. It even led to a series of articles about a person claiming it to be sentient.

So yes, 2 years ago, plenty of people would have believed it was possible.



Never heard of Google Lambda nor any of the people i know of. In contrast even my Grandma asks me about ChatGPT


Your appeal to popularity misses the entire point of the article. Maybe your Grandma knows about ChatGPT because PR firms are generating discussion.


How i wish such PR firms would truly exist. I fully get the point of the article and still disagree. You know what could be also true? That some people don't get the appeal of popularity which is fine but unfortunately the hard currency in product success


Ok fine, but they could've just said 4 years ago instead and their fundamental point would've remained the same. The rate of progress is staggering.




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