The Emergent Abilities of LLMs - why LLMs are so useful

LLMs have been shown to have abilities which they were not trained for. For example, LLMs can translate between languages without being directly trained to do so. These abilities have been shown to rapidly appear once the LLMs gets to a certain "critical size".

These special abilities are called the Emergent Abilities of LLMs - appearing to emerge at a particular scale. In this video, we will learn what Emergent Abilities are, how they were discovered, why they are important, …

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