Sorry, I’m not saying that’s a good thing. It’s not just the context that’s expanding, but the parameter of the base model. I’m saying at some point you just have saved a compressed version of the majority of the content (we’re already kind of there) and you’d be able to decompress it even more losslessly. This doesn’t make it more useful for anything other than recreating copyrighted works.
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Ah I see, however you do bring up another point. I really think we need a true collection of experts able to communicate without the need for natural language and then a “translation” layer to output natural language or images to the user. The larger parameters would allow the injection of experts into the pipeline.
Thanks for the clarification, and also for the idea. I think one thing we can all agree on is that the field is expanding faster than any billionaire or company understands.
AliasAKA@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
This already happens intrinsically in the models. The tokens are abstracted in the internal layers and only translated in the output layer back to next token prediction. Training visual models is slightly different because you’re not outputting tokens but pixel values (or possibly bounding boxes or edges, but not usually; conversely if not generative you may be predicting labels which could theoretically be in token space).
The field itself is actually fairly stagnant in architecture. It’s still just attention layers all the way down. It’s just adding more context length and more layers and wider layers while training on more data. I personally think this approach will never achieve AGI or anything like it. It will get better at perfectly reciting its training data, but I don’t expect truly emergent phenomena to occur with these architectures just because they’re very big. They’ll be decent chatbots, but we already have that, and they’ll just consumer ever more resources for vanishingly small improvements (and won’t functionally improve any true logical capability beyond regurgitating logical paths already trodden in their training data but in a very brittle way, because they do not actually understand the logic or why the logic is valid, they have no true state model of objects which are described in the token space they’re traversing probabilistically).
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 19 hours ago
I was unclear I guess, I was talking about injecting other models, running their prediction pipeline for the specific topic, and then dropped out of the window to be replaced by another expert. This functionality handled by a larger model that is running the context window. Not nested models, but interchangeable ones dependent on the vector of the tokens.
Currently this is handled with MCP servers and as I understand it those use natural language.