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colechristensentoday at 5:50 AM2 repliesview on HN

>there's no ceiling to what scaling more will buy you in terms of capability

This is highly doubtful.

Rule of thumb: everything people think is exponential is actually an S curve.


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nok22kontoday at 7:57 AM

better rule: exponentials are overlapping S-curves

bitwizetoday at 7:49 AM

There's a limit that won't be breached without a fundamental breakthrough in physics of computation, but we're not there yet by a long shot. You can train bigger models, faster, and infer with them faster and more precisely, by throwing more compute at the problem for the foreseeable.

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