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		modeless on Oct 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The real data wall is billions of years of evoluti... My point is really that a lot of people thought we were eons away. "It was clear" to you, but your opinion was not shared by the majority probably until at least GPT-2 at the very earliest (2019). (Note that the sibling comment to yours still doesn't believe we are close...) Similarly, today a lot of people think we are eons away from useful general purpose robots, but it is clear to me that they are coming soon.

marcosdumay on Oct 9, 2024 [–]

That we'd beat the Turing test soon was a majoritarian opinion around here.

Honestly, I wasn't even that well informed to make my own. I kept postponing looking at the chatbots until after it was beat.

modeless on Oct 9, 2024 | [–]

I disagree. 10 years ago there were people who thought that but they were far from the majority.

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