There Would Have Been No LLMs Without This (History of LLMs #3)

Game-changing 1990s: the bloom of NN, success of RNNLM and backpropagation, introduction of GPUs and advent of Transformers

Quick Review:

So far, in this series about the history of Large Language Models (LLMs), we’ve covered three main periods:

1. The Early 1930s to late 1960s: The Rise and Fall of Mechanical Translation from which history started.

2. From 1960 to 1970: Fascinating birth of AI, the first chatbots, and the power of the US Department of Defense.

3. Bonus episode about AI …