I think it was 2017.
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Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days agoThe LLM page was published in 2019 right? 7 years ago!
no_name_dev_from_hell@programming.dev 6 days ago
EliteCloneMike@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Yea, and the main discovery being transformers (GPT predecessor). That allowed for the groundbreaking technology of AlphaFold to come into being, for which a Nobel prize was awarded to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper (who just left Google DeepMind to join Anthropic).
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Okay my bad, thx.
Markaos@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
2017, actually. But the search engine (supposedly the last innovation according to the previous comment) has seen most of its leaps forward in late 90s to early 2000s, which is a lot earlier.
Also it’s pretty hard to find a more clear example of Google sharing well done research than the white paper that started the current AI bubble. But they do publish a lot of stuff.