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ChatGPT’s success could have come sooner, says former Google AI researcher
A co-author of Attention Is All You Need reflects on ChatGPT’s surprise and Google’s conservatism.
At TED AI 2024 in October, one of those eight researchers, Jakob Uszkoreit, spoke with Ars Technica about the development of transformers, Google's early work on large language models, and his new venture in biological computing. In the interview, Uszkoreit revealed that while his team at Google had high hopes for the technology's potential, they didn't quite anticipate its pivotal role in products like ChatGPT. But it was really motivated by just an enormous, not only opportunity, but a moral obligation in a sense, to do something that was better done outside in order to design better medicines and have very direct impact on people's lives.
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