Beach Reading: a Short History of Pre-Trained Models

Step into a world of wonder and amazement as we unravel the captivating tale of artificial intelligence’s incredible journey. From the birth of the first neural network in the 1950s to the rise of powerful language models like GPT, join us on a thrilling ride through the evolution of AI.

Patrick Meyer
Towards AI
Published in
8 min readAug 4, 2023

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I work in the field of artificial intelligence, especially in knowledge processing and NLP. In particular, on virtual assistants since 2016.