Why “models” is being discussed
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Nowadays we use LLMs mostly for doing agentic-based work. LLMs new Pareto frontier only make the headlines if they push the boundaries on benchmarks that are deterministic tasks…
by bguberfain · Sep 6, 2026
I have a phone and PC rapidly filling up with apps I've created myself because I'm fed up with subscriptions and invasive advertising. And they do exactly what I want them to do…
by jaggs · Sep 6, 2026
Yes, that's what I'm saying. 200t/s is more than enough to 5 - 10x my productivity and the intelligence of current open weight models covers 90% of both my guided and softw…
by apatheticonion · Sep 6, 2026
It's because existing models are a brute-force approach to intelligence. With enough data and compute, a stochastic parrot will become very impressive. But with robotics, there'…
by RivieraKid · Sep 6, 2026
LLMs get a lot of finetuning, but I suspect there are two things that can cause this kind of writing: Firstly, some parts of the RLHF involve human graders on the LLM's performa…
by rcxdude · Sep 6, 2026
Ok great, thanks. Now you’ve brought up facial recognition, and that’s actually a great example to show where the analogy breaks, and the idea of a few sparse cells encoding spe…
by randomImmigrant · Sep 6, 2026
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A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system, and serves as a substitute for the original. For example:Machine learning model, a type of a mathematical model of a concrete system in the context of machine learning Model (person), a human representing, or to be imitated by, other humans, e.g. in art or commercial advertising Read more on Wikipedia