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themgtyesterday at 3:20 PM1 replyview on HN

That’s not what your quotes said. They said bigger models = plateau in intelligence, nothing about more data or increased hallucinations ... I’m pretty sure #1 is well known

Well known in a multiverse branch where Fable was a dud?


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an0malousyesterday at 4:18 PM

No, well known in the current multiverse branch where we still occasionally use things like math and scientific analysis instead of people’s vibe checks and pelican SVGs.

Here’s the paper from OpenAI where Dario himself was a co-author: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361

> We have observed consistent scalings of language model log-likelihood loss with non-embedding parameter count N, dataset size D, and optimized training computation Cmin, as encapsulated in Equations (1.5) and (1.6). Conversely, we find very weak dependence on many architectural and optimization hyperparameters. Since scalings with N,D,Cmin are power-laws, there are diminishing returns with increasing scale.

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