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[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

To be fair an argument can be made for the Lego block one, using a novel combination of existing technologies to get better results is how nearly all innovation happens in machine learning.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Proving a thing that's only known empirically is extremely valuable, too. We've an enormous amount of evidence that the Riemann hypothesis is correct - we can produce an infinite amount of points on the line, in fact - but proving it is a different matter.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 points 5 days ago

And for the kid challenging the 0.1% result, that’s about as close to pure scientific method as you can get.

[–] foo@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago

Especially in ML too. It's currently easier to integrate multiple small specialised models than to train a big model for every use case. If I understand correctly, that was one of the main motivations for Anthropic developing the Model Context Protocol, including interacting with LLMs from front-end clients.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

"Our model has no sense of permanence or real understanding of what words even mean and we re-interpreted this as the ability to lie."

[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I fucking loathe the term "compute". Every time one of these mealy-mouthed motherfuckers lets it slide through sphincter-like lips I want to kick some teeth in.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

Your rage makes me feel seen. I share your feelings.

[–] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

“We repeat the experiment with a newer dataset and act like we are the first doing this kind of experiment”

“We talk about possible applications in the future writing like your run-of-the-mill generalist newspaper”

“Another article resuming other articles”

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

Missing the Survey paper: Here’s the results of 5-10 other papers

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

Depending on the application case and benchmark, being 0.1 to 0.3 % better than other SOTA approaches can still be statistically highly significant. Even though such a number does notmlook like much, it can mean a large leap forward in practise.

Anyway, I wouod add a machine learning paper type that was written by an LLM and nobody cared to call that out in the peer review.