Comment by janalsncm

4 hours ago

Correct, but zero-shot classifiers are also not new.

But zero-shot classifiers with this level of intelligence, world knowledge, ergonomics, cost profile, and ease of use are new.

I feel like good engineering doesn't just ignore those things, or at least it didn't before recently. Now I guess social media has added a pressure to reduce everything to a hot take.

  • They almost certainly would perform worse than more specialized classifiers trained with less data. It’s kind of a paradox of generalization. I think there’s an interesting space where you use generalized models to generate ad hoc specialized classifiers.