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0 pointscharcircuit2y ago0 comments

>From my firm conviction 18 months ago that this type of stuff is 20+ years away;

It was totally possible. There just was not a consumer facing product offering the capability.

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I disagree that at current possibility it was "totally possible" but it was 100% obvious by that point that it was going to be possible very soon. IMO that has been clear since ~2019.

charcircuitOP2y ago

GPT3 existed. OCR existed. Object recognition existed.

whimsicalism2y ago

GPT3 was not as good as 3.5. Multimodal is not the same as OCR + object recognition.

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whimsicalism2y ago

I disagree that at current possibility it was "totally possible" but it was 100% obvious by that point that it was going to be possible very soon. IMO that has been clear since ~2019.

charcircuitOP2y ago

GPT3 existed. OCR existed. Object recognition existed.

whimsicalism2y ago

GPT3 was not as good as 3.5. Multimodal is not the same as OCR + object recognition.

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