The response gets more reasonable the smaller the model in question. A 1B parameter model passing grade-school math tests would be much more alarming (exciting?

The response gets more reasonable the smaller the model in question. A 1B parameter model passing grade-school math tests would be much more alarming (exciting?) than a GPT-4 sized model doing the same. GPT-4 probably has some version of the answer memorized. There’s no real explanation for a 1B parameter model solving math problems other than general cognition.