AI’s Ostensible Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage

AI
paper
LLMs
generative AI
NLP
A new paper argues that the apparent emergence of new LLM capabilities at scale is a measurement artifact, not a real phenomenon.
Author

synesis

Published

May 10, 2023

Blog: [1]

Paper: Rylan Schaeffer, Brando Miranda, and Sanmi Koyejo. 2023. “Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?” ArXiv [Cs.AI]. arXiv. [2].

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References

[1] “AI’s Ostensible Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage.” Stanford HAI. https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ais-ostensible-emergent-abilities-are-mirage

[2] Rylan Schaeffer, Brando Miranda, and Sanmi Koyejo. 2023. “Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?” arXiv:2304.15004. http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004