
Author
Subarna Basnet
Published
Jan 28, 2023 • 2 min read
after playing with that AI tool for a few days i started thinking... what is actually going on behind this thing?
like seriously. i type a question and it writes paragraphs. sometimes even explains better than many websites. that feels kind of crazy.
so i spent some time reading random articles and posts online trying to understand what people are building in this space. turns out a lot of big companies and research labs have been working on these systems for years.
here are some of the ones i found while reading:
| system | company / lab | year | what makes it crazy |
|---|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | openai | 2022 | people can talk to it like a human and get long answers instantly |
| gpt-3 | openai | 2020 | trained on massive internet data, can generate text, code, stories |
| dalle | openai | 2022 | type a sentence and it generates completely new images |
| alphafold | deepmind | 2021 | predicts protein structures that scientists struggled with for decades |
| midjourney | independent lab | 2022 | generates artistic images from simple prompts |
| stable diffusion | stability ai | 2022 | open image generation model anyone can run |
what surprised me the most is the speed of progress.
many of these things didn't even exist a few years ago. and suddenly people everywhere are using them for writing, art, coding, research, and random experiments.
i still don't fully understand how these models work. things like neural networks, training data, huge GPU clusters... it all sounds very complex.
but one thing is obvious.
something big is happening in the AI world right now.
and honestly... i want to understand it better.