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Ask HN: Why should I learn BERT/transformers/etc. when LLMs like GPT-4 exist?

• behnamoh 4y ago
  Costs aside, why should I learn older NLP methods when I can simply ask ChatGPT to give me the sentiment of a sentence, classify texts, etc.?
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• adamquek 4y ago
  Sounds similar to the popular question: why learn arithmetic when calculator exists?
• sp332 4y ago
  What do you mean "learn" BERT?
• smoldesu 4y ago
  It's easier. Setting up a docker container[0] that replicates OpenAI's endpoints is faster than making an account from scratch with payment processing included. Plus, I don't really trust OpenAI's data policies. Running the model locally gives me the option to airgap my inferencing machine if-needed, something OpenAI won't have until they offer on-prem. [0] https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI