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I wonder if they connect all the way back to Micro$oft's neo Nazi chat bot from decades ago?
Not sure if you really want to know, but a Google paper is where transformers (backbone of LLMs) were first mentioned (2016 I believe). Google initially used transformers for translations and eventually search, but OpenAI experimented with them for text generation (gpt 1+) eventually leading to chatgpt.
That's an interesting bit of trivia, thank you for sharing!