alt Hacker News> if LLMs are used as compressors, how well is that expected to work
Quite well. This project[1], by Fabrice Bellard of ffmpeg fame, is quite old in AI years and uses an ancient LLM, but still beats xz by a solid margin.
> if LLMs are used as compressors, how well is that expected to work
Quite well. This project[1], by Fabrice Bellard of ffmpeg fame, is quite old in AI years and uses an ancient LLM, but still beats xz by a solid margin.
Makes me wonder if compression ratio can be used as a measure for intelligence. Any benchmarks using it?