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Alex Tamkin on Self-Supervised Learning and Large Language Models

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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The Benefits of ImageNet for Language Modeling

ImageNet has like a thousand classes and then that's about it, even though obviously there's way more. So you're inherently trying to kind of understand the associations and correlations and so on without human-labeled secondary task. And maybe that sort of raw-based sort of form of a task builds a whole lot of a broader range of capabilities than if you were to say, spend a whole lots of time and get humans to construct a label-based learning signal.

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