Where does the singularity start: AlexNet, AlphaGo, Transformer, or ChatGPT?
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-27
An open question about which milestone future historians will pick as the singularity's start date: AlexNet, AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol, the Vaswani et al. Transformer paper, or the November 2022 release of ChatGPT.
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