2026-09-24 13:22 UTC
8 or 9 years is about right for when modern LLMs started. Do people really think LLMs just sprang into existence a few years ago with giant corporations pushing them?
The tech is decades old depending on how you look at it, and even under a rather strict definition it’s pushing at least a decade.
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@Squizzy@lemmy.world 2026-09-24 13:35
Do we really think those on the cutting edge of AI and LLMs a decade ago are applying for prompt engineer roles…with their mandatory prompt engineer cert.
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@Goblingoats@reddthat.com 2026-09-24 13:38
True even the sliders TV show has a episode talking about LLMs. ( 1999) I think
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@Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2026-09-24 14:26
That one “AI dungeon” videogame from like 2019 was using gpt2 and it was still better than chatgpt at most things. Was just a bit more porn oriented that’s all.
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@cyberangelcorpse@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-24 15:33
I remember fucking with an image generator in 2021