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How Quickly Do Large Language Models Learn Unexpected Skills? (nautil.us)

submitted 8 months ago by dominiquec@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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So-called "emergent" behavior in LLMs may not be the breakthrough that researchers think.

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[–] Norgur@fedia.io 27 points 8 months ago (8 children)

What always irks me about those "emergent behavior" articles: no one ever really defines what those amazing"skills" are supposed to be.

[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Emergent behavior is pretty much anything an old model couldn't do that a new model can. Simple reasoning, creating coherent sentences, "theory of mind", basic math, translation, I think are a few examples.

They aren't "amazing" in the sense that a human can't do them, but they are in the sense that a computer is doing it.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 5 points 8 months ago

They aren't "amazing" in the sense that a human can't do them, but they are in the sense that a computer is doing it.

... without specifically being trained for it, to be precise.

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