Disclaimer: I am not informed about the development of AI, LLMs, etc. or what we were doing with them pre-covid.

I remember them exploding when everyone was doing at home/ hybrid classes, and I wonder how much of an effect on things that really had.

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    11 hours ago

    I’ve heard the theory before that the collapse of cryptocurrencies was a larger factor, since you suddenly had lots of cheap GPUs on the market. If anything, I would guess that the pandemic slowed that down, because relatively many people got into gaming and we did have the chip shortage from factories being locked down…