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ford • today at 9:00 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I agree it's overhyped, but the transition to a general purpose classifier (vs a narrow scope classifier) is new and noteworthy.

Ie the famous "Hotdog" clip from Silicon Valley [0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACmydtFDTGs


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janalsncm • today at 10:41 PM

Maybe noteworthy but definitely not new. The category of zero-shot classification has been around for a while.

Example (2022):

https://developers.openai.com/cookbook/examples/zero-shot_cl...