3 Comments
User's avatar
Henry Ward's avatar

"If we don’t find what’s after the transformer, there may not be enough benefit to AI models."

- How so? Transformers are too expensive?

Nathan Lambert's avatar

Honestly I dumped a half baked thought into a footnote. Should’ve trimmed it.

Mostly the point was going to be on how fully open models impact the ecosystem in a very different way than open weights.

Henry Ward's avatar

Very fair. I forgot the golden rule: "For an essay, read the text and skip the footnotes.

For an academic book, read the footnotes and skip the text.

For a business book, skip both text and footnotes." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 😂