“Eight seminal AI papers published in the last eight years by researchers at Google Microsoft Meta Platforms, OpenAI and elsewhere provided blueprints for promising technologies, such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, which generate humanlike answers or photorealistic images based on a short description, respectively. Tens of millions of people and businesses have used the products based on those papers, and they have upended major tech companies—something the researchers could barely have imagined a few years ago.”
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