It all started w/James Simons & his hedge fund RENTEC..well actually before that but the real IBM Robert Mercer Peter Brown Sejnowski Hinton Churchland Poindexter model LLM's for AI stuff (read Mercer's paper on Computational Linguistics) statted w/some mathematicians & Naval nuclear physicists &..
Neuroscientists & computational neurobiologists frm John Hopfeld to Terrence Sejnowski to Geoffrey Hinton to Illya Sutskever who btw were ALL mentors or mentees of each other at one point & it was a RACE for AI since the 50s! Cold Spring Harbor UCSD Francis Crick Salk Scripps Max Plank Society etc..
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Peter Brown of IBM (LLM afficiando) was more responsible for the development of large language models than anyone & RENTEC & THE MEDALLION FUND Simons Mercer Brown.. all the math & all the research of Sejnowski Hinton Poindexter & all the linked 🧠s they needed! Marcel told me they COMPETE & SHARE...