Alec is a once in a generational researcher, but saying that he invented pretraining is not only a bit of stretch, but it's also a disrespect to other people's work. Flowers ☾ (@flowersslop) Every LLM from any lab today traces back to this guy, who was the only person at OpenAI pushing for pretraining transformer language models. He built GPT-1. After that did others see the potential. He invented it, and almost none of the so called AI experts even know his name. — https://nitter.net/flowersslop/status/2037892926785634720#m

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