Large Language Models (LLMs)
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Large Language Models (LLMs)
“A more practical answer is that it’s a file. This right here is a large language model, called Vicuna 7B. It’s a 4.2 gigabyte file on my computer. If you open the file, it’s just numbers. These things are giant binary blobs of numbers…”
Simon Willison, attempting to explain LLM
LLMs do not tell you the answer to your question. They tell you “when people ask questions like that, this is what the answers that other people tend to give tend to look like”
Over time, that difference may or may not narrow, depending on what kind of question you’re asking.
People need to be more thoughtful building products on top of LLMs. The fact that they generate text is not the point.
Linus Leestream.thesephist.com
Large Language Models Understand and Can Be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli
Kaijie Zhureadwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com“The fact that these things model language is probably one of the biggest discoveries in history. That you (LLM) can learn language by just predicting the next word … — that’s just shocking to me.”
- Mikhail Belkin, computer scientist at the University of California
Meanwhile, LLM results are probabilistic. 10 blue links are also probabilistic, but Google is giving you options - adding human curation by making you pick from a list of results. Using an LLM result is more like hitting ‘I’m feeling lucky’ - it requires more confidence