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[amelius]

Unrelated question, but was Watson (the version that played Jeopardy) an LLM?

[htrp → amelius]

Not quite.... Watson predates the transformer architecture by at least a decade

Refer to this article https://cbmm.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/watson.pd...

[amelius → htrp]

I think LLM is not synonymous with transformers and are quite a bit older. Afaik, an LLM is just a model (any kind of large model) that predicts the next token based on previous tokens.

[ilaksh → amelius]

Yes it was called Watson, but I don't think the technology is related to what they used. So maybe not an LLM at that time. "Watson" just became a brand name for IBM.