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Ask HN: What's the point of training bigger language models?

2 pointsby eclectic29over 2 years ago
What's the point of training bigger language models when you can't even serve (inference) them economically? What am I missing here?

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jstx1over 2 years ago
&gt; What&#x27;s the point of training bigger language models when you can&#x27;t even serve (inference) them economically?<p>They&#x27;re built to impress people and push the boundaries of can be done with ML. Economies, accessibility, scale - those things come later.
neximo64over 2 years ago
The number of parameters correlates with the believability of the result being from an intelligent human being.<p>Easy to inference&#x2F;small model = poor results