A million people building GPT models means that one in 8000 humans on earth has built one. That seems wildly off.
Linkedin has about 100.000 profiles of data scientists. Assume generously that the actual number is 10x higher. Not correcting for the fact that a data scientist isn't always a machine learning expert, etc etc, there's just no way every single one of them even KNOWS what a GPT-like model is.
Not only building. Also tinkering, using, testing out of curiosity, etc. There are around ~30 million software developers worldwide today (source: googled it). Around ~7 million of them are registered users of Github (source: googled it). 1M+ seems likely to me.
BTW, I appreciate that you preceded your comment with "Pedantry time!" -- nice gesture :-)
A million people building GPT models means that one in 8000 humans on earth has built one. That seems wildly off.
Linkedin has about 100.000 profiles of data scientists. Assume generously that the actual number is 10x higher. Not correcting for the fact that a data scientist isn't always a machine learning expert, etc etc, there's just no way every single one of them even KNOWS what a GPT-like model is.