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This “AI spring” is really snowballing with the crazy nouns and terminology. Alpaca, llama and now chinchilla??
by whalesalad 4y ago
This “AI spring” is really snowballing with the crazy nouns and terminology. Alpaca, llama and now chinchilla??
- murkt 4y agoChinchilla actually came before alpaca and llama. Every new variation of model gets some new name, just like every library gets a new name. There were all kinds of BERTs before - DistilBert, Roberta, SciBERT, Schmobert, Schmuber, etc. Many hundreds of them, I think.
- ramesh1994 4y agoThe term "chinchilla" predates llama/alpaca. It doesn't directly map to a specific model, rather a family of compute-optimal models.
- whoisnnamdi 4y agoChinchilla actually came first!
- jhbadger 4y agoAs mentioned, chinchilla is not part of this trend, and chinchillas are rodents. Alpacas and llamas are South American camelids (animals related to camels). So if additional names are needed, I would expect them to be vicuña and guanaco, as they are also in the group.
- mometsi 4y agoI think the relevant category is "Adorable Fuzzy Critters of the Andes". See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacled_bear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacled_bear