3 ms·
Emergent abilities of large language models
- PaulHoule 4y agoIt was around 1990 when I asked Marvin Minsky about ‘emergenent phenomena’ and he told me they were a lot of bunk. The problems listed above are poorly characterized and there is no modeling of if these should be answerable or not answerable by current models. I’d contrast that the the 1980s AI winter in which people could tell you exactly why the status quo was a dead end.