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The wall confronting large language models

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170 points PaulHoule | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 11:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dcre ◴[03 Sep 25 20:10 UTC] No.45119904[source]▶
Always fun to see a theoretical argument that something clearly already happening is impossible.
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ahartmetz ◴[03 Sep 25 20:28 UTC] No.45120040[source]▶
So where are the recent improvements in LLMs proportional to the billions invested?
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dcre ◴[03 Sep 25 21:00 UTC] No.45120367[source]▶
Value for the money is not at issue in the paper!
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1. ahartmetz ◴[03 Sep 25 21:03 UTC] No.45120399[source]▶
I believe it is. They are saying that LLMs don't improve all that much from giving them more resources - and computing power (and input corpus size) is pretty proportional to money.