I have some data science background, and I kinda understand how LLM parameter tuning works and how model generates text.
Simplifying and phrasing my understanding, an LLM works like - Given a prompt: Write a program to check if input is an odd number (converts the prompt to embedding), then the LLM plays a dice game/probability game of: given prompt, then generate a set of new tokens.
Now my question is, how are the current LLM’s are able to parse through a bunch of search results and play the above dice game? Like at times it reads through say 10 URLs and generate results, how are they able to achieve this? What’s the engineering behind generating such huge verbose of texts? Cause I always argue about the theoretical limitations of LLM, but now that these “agents” are able to manage huge verbose of text I dont seem to have a good argument. So what exactly is happening? And what is the limit of AI non theortical limit of AI?
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I mean, even as-is, it’s a very useful tool. Especially as the capabilities we have get exponentially cheaper.
What people don’t get is AI is about to become a race to the bottom, not to the top. It’s a utility to sift through millions of documents or run simple bots, or work assistants, or makeshift translators or whatever; you know, oldschool language modeling. And that’s really neat as the cost approaches “basically free.”