knightly the Sneptaur

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  • This isn’t the “very beginning”, that was either 70 or 120 years ago, depending on whether you’re counting from the formalization of “AI” as an academic discipline with the advent of the Markov Decision Process or the earlier foundational work on Markov Chains.

    Chatbots are old-hat, I was playing around with Eliza back in the 90’s. Hell, even Large Language Models aren’t new, the transformer architecture they’re based on is almost 10 years old and itself merely a minor evolution of earlier statistical and recurrent neural network language processing models. By the time big tech started ramping up the “AI” bubble in 2024, I had already been bored with LLMs for two years.

    There’s no “early adaptation” here, just a rushed and wildly excessive implementation of a very interesting but fundamentally untrustworthy tech with no practical value proposition for the people it is nevertheless being sold to.