[HN Gopher] Don't Pivot into AI Research
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       Don't Pivot into AI Research
        
       Author : maged
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-08-07 21:55 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | gmaster1440 wrote:
       | > Scale beats all else. The best performance improvements come
       | from increasing scale, rather than incremental insights in novel
       | architectures.
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       | ...until the next novel architecture is discovered, which won't
       | happen without said AI research.
        
         | luke-stanley wrote:
         | Exactly! Quality can be very important too, as a series of
         | interestingly advanced small models have shown.
        
       | luke-stanley wrote:
       | Not all kinds of scaling requires high up front capital costs.
       | Some of us are interested in exploring fundamental contours of
       | intelligence here, and there are lots of fascinating threads to
       | pull on.
       | 
       | Nothing wrong with exploring motivations though as this article
       | does. Maybe the job market trends they speak of will be true but
       | I hope that's not a primary motivation. There's exploration to
       | do!
        
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