alt Hacker NewsIt has always felt to me that the LLM chatbots were a surprise to Google, not LLMs, or machine learning in general.
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raphlinus • yesterday at 9:02 PM
Not true at all. I interacted with Meena[1] while I was there, and the publication was almost three years before the release of ChatGPT. It was an unsettling experience, felt very science fiction.
[1]: https://research.google/blog/towards-a-conversational-agent-...
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It was a surprise to OpenAI too. ChatGPT was essentially a demo app to showcase their API, it was not meant to be a mass consumer product. When you think about it, ChatGPT is a pretty awkward product name, but they had to stick with it.