Large language models’ surprise emergent behavior written off as ‘a mirage’Thomas Claburnon May 16, 2023 at 11:38 The Register
Forget those huge hyped-up systems, that smaller one might be right for you. And here’s why
Analysis GPT-3, PaLM, LaMDA and other next-gen language models have been known to exhibit unexpected “emergent” abilities as they increase in size. However, some Stanford scholars argue that’s a consequence of mismeasurement rather than miraculous competence.…