When did the singularity start: AlexNet, AlphaGo, the Transformer paper, or Nov 2022?
gleech · x · 2026-09-27
dioscuri muses on what date history will pick as the start of the singularity — AlexNet, AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol, Vaswani et al., or November 2022 — with gleech chiming in via a link.
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