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		gammalost on Nov 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A coder considers the waning days of the craft To be fair the theory behind it is old. Only that hardware wasn't up to the task yet. For example here's language prediction from 1991 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s15516709cog....

cubefox on Nov 14, 2023 [–]

That's not true. Modern language models use modern theory, such as the transformer architecture.

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