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Comment by dgb23

4 hours ago

The gap in capabilities is mostly quantitative and not qualitative.

Is it? I am on the fence on this, but it does seem like there are some qualitative improvements between the models.

Not related to your post, but a fact I keep mulling over. The fact I don't trust the current crop of LLM's enough and I consider LLM's as a tech will hit a ceiling pretty hard, it doesn't mean parallel improvement curves won't spring up out of other research that will lead to much higher capabilities than currently.

  • > but it does seem like there are some qualitative improvements between the models.

    It could easily seem that way, I think, in a "quantity has a quality of its own" kind of way. When you can come to the same conclusion faster, that lets you iterate more; and sometimes when you iterate you find more things.