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by QuadmasterXLII 946 days ago
With only the information we had in 2020, the two theories “language models don’t reason, they regurgitate” and “as language models scale, they begin to think and reason” made predictions, and the people who invested time and money based on the predictions of the latter theory have done well for themselves.
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The people who bet on generative tasks, are getting mileage out of tit.

People who bet on reasoning tasks, not so much.

If you're trying to tell me there's a sucker born every minute, I knew that.