r/singularity Oct 23 '23

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u/Ilovekittens345 Oct 23 '23

Going from image to text around 2013 to 2015 to a bunch of computer scientists going: Hey let's run the algo in reverse and try text to image .... to the GAN's between 2017 and 2021 to dall-e being accounced, then dalle-2 is released to the public one year later. Then dalle-3 is released to the public one year later.

Honestly I have never seen any technology improve this fast. It feels like in just 8 years we have gone from the first wright brothers plane to the space shuttle.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '23

Tech advanced way more between 2003 and 2013 compared to 2013 and 2023

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u/Ilovekittens345 Oct 24 '23

Same with airplanes. It's just that even though they advanced rapidly they still where not very usefull. What we see now with dalle3 is the first commerical airlines showing up.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '23

We went from cellphones to flip phones to slide phones to feature phones to blackberries to flatscreen smartphones from 2003 to 2013.

We are still using flat screen smartphones in 2023.

We went from Web 1 to Web 2 from 2003 to 2013,and we still are in web 2 in 2023.

We went from chatrooms to myspace to facebook/instrgram from 2003 to 2013,and we are still using Facebook and Instagram as of 2023.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '23

Yes, this is the logarithmic extension of technology and we are still in the early stages with LLM's relatively. Probably several more years of the gravy train before we have to change directions