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Scaling laws and emergent abilities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
LLM model performance f. 100 million to >500 billion parameters = progressive unlocking of emergent capabilities such as multi-lingual translation, arithmetic, programming code composition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#Scaling_laws_and_emergent_abilities
... larger models may acquire "emergent abilities" at this point. These abilities are discovered rather than programmed or designed, in some cases only after the LLM has been publicly deployed
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