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As far as I (ex-ML researcher) know, the main technological case that LLM performance will hit a limit is due to the amount of text data available to train on i
by henry_pulver 2y ago
As far as I (ex-ML researcher) know, the main technological case that LLM performance will hit a limit is due to the amount of text data available to train on is limited. The ways these scaling laws work is they require 10x or 100x quantity of data to see major improvements.
This isn't necessarily going to limit it though. It's possible there are clever approaches to leverage much more data. This could either be through AI-generated data, other modalities (e.g. video) or another approach altogether.
This is quite a good accessible post on both sides of this discussion: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-work https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-work
- dang 2y agoDiscussed here: Will scaling work? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38781484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38781484 - Dec 2023 (283 comments)