alt Hacker NewsI miss the pre-LLM days when you could make a decent argument that having any unnecessary data was just a liability. Now all anybody thinks is “more data for the AI!”
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hdndjsbbs • today at 3:34 PM
10+ years ago companies were hoovering up data for ML - trying to find correlations in high-dimensionality data. Mostly the results were garbage but occasionally you hit on a real, unexpected phenomenon.
Nowadays you just throw all the data into a black box and believe whatever it says blindly.
citrin_ru • today at 1:56 PM
Data hoarding predates LLMs. There where other machine learning methods which also needed data for training.
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Were you not around for the Big Data heyday a decade ago?