LLMs For General Purpose Tasks So the next question is will we have specialized LLMs for some general-purpose tasks like coding, reasoning, summarization, or writing? GPT-4 does really well on code compared to Google's LLMs, so will there be several purpose-built LLMs? /6
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Bard vs GPT-4: Performance on Recent vs Historical Data
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Already, Bard outperforms GPT-4 when it comes to queries about recent data and GPT-4 does much better on queries on data available before September 2021 (it's training cut-off date). /5
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Google and Meta’s Data Advantage in LLM Development
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Meta enjoys the same advantage in terms of being able to use Facebook and Instagram data. This will translate to Google and Meta LLMs being able to serve and respond to general information queries better than LLMs from OpenAI or other start-ups. /4
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Google and Meta’s Competitive Advantage in LLM Training Data
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Google and Meta have a huge advantage here compared to anyone else. Google, because of it's search dominance can get away with crawling every website that wants their search traffic and can use YouTube and potentially Gmail data to train their LLMs. /3
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Future of LLMs: Data Constraints and Information Queries
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So what is the future of this technology and how is the space likely to evolve? Data Advantage and Information Queries LLMs will soon become data-constrained. Even with a large number of GPUs, most companies don't have access to new and unique sources of data. /2
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LLM Evolution: Will Large Language Models Become Commodities?
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The evolution of LLMs over the next couple of years – Will the tech become a commodity and commonplace? Not a single day passes by without someone announcing a new LLM, and foundation models get replaced by next-generation models in a matter of months. /1
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CEO Layoffs Preferred Over Salary Cuts Legal Concerns
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Layoffs happening already. Cutting salaries can be harder to do legally, so layoffs are CEO's preferred solution…
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Prediction Markets for Waymo Human Intervention Monitoring
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I decided that I don't want to monitor this issue hard enough to adjudicate a prediction market myself; but making the prediction market for whether Waymo is relying on amounts of human intervention near that of Cruise, would be one way to promote rumors to public best-guesses.
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OpenCV 5 Crowdfunding Challenges and Commercial License Consideration
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@ylecun : I agree with all your points but you are grossly underestimating the challenges of crowdfunding open source software. The current crowdfunding campaign for opencv 5 is making us seriously think about a commercial license for opencv. Please help
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TikTok Algorithms: Government Control and Social Division Risk
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Just saying, if I were a government that controlled the company that controlled TikTok, I would absolutely use it to exploit our free society with algorithms that fed into everyone’s confirmation bias, tribalism and need to be right in order to create more division and hate.