Comment by bensyverson

2 months ago

Learning about the emergent properties of these black boxes is not surprising, but it's also not daily. I think every new insight is worth celebrating.

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user_7832  2 months ago

Oh I very much agree that it's great to see more research and findings and improvements in this field. I'm just a little puzzled by GP's tone (which suggested that it isn't completely expected to find new things about LLMs, a few years in).

  • bensyverson  2 months ago

    I'm the GP! lol… Not sure how you got that from my tone, but I find these discoveries expected but not routine, and also interesting.

    • user_7832  2 months ago

      Sorry lol, to me it felt like you were (pleasantly) surprised by this research. IMO I'd hardly be surprised to see breakthroughs in LLM understanding years or even decades from now. I guess I misunderstood your tone.

TeMPOraL  2 months ago

Indeed. For me, it's also a good reminder that AI is here to stay as technology, that the hype and investment bubble don't actually matter (well, except to those that care about AI as investment vehicle, of which I'm not one). Even if all funding dried out today, even if all AI companies shut down tomorrow, and there are no more models being trained - we've barely begun exploring how to properly use the ones we have.

We have tons of low-hanging fruits across all fields of science and engineering to be picked, in form of different ways to apply and chain the models we have, different ways to interact with them, etc. - enough to fuel a good decade of continued progress in everything.