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Edit : Please read @[email protected]'s comment before mine.
Hey folks, I believe this is really big.
Traditional deep neural network's training requires millions of example and so, despite its great success, is immensely inefficient.
Now what if learning of these machines was as fast or faster than a human's ? Well, it seems this is it.
Look at how large language models are disruptive for many sectors of society. This new technology could accelerate the process exponentially.
Is this a limited advancement in training techniques? Right now I'm working on several types of image classification models. How would this be able to help me?
Sorry, I just read a lot... but I don't work in this field.
If you don't really understand it, why do you believe this is so big?
~~Admittedly, they were quoting someone else in the message you responded to. That may have been edited after the fact, but the person they're quoting did in fact say those words ("this is big").~~
It was I who couldn't read, as that is not what happened.
I am not sure what "image classification models" incompasses. I would have to read more and understand and I don't have enough time and energy.
Yet in the past I have read and understand a few books about neural networks and this new article in nature is something else : it's clear when reading it.
( also to @[email protected] )
I mean is this any different than standard gradient descent with something like Adam as optimiser.
That's my assumption based on the headline. But the quick skim I gave the article seemed to only discuss it in the context of NLP. Not exactly my field of study.
Based on your reading, swag?
It's over for us useless eaters, no matter how useful one is we will always be useless compared to what's coming.
Look at this guy over here sucking up all that oxygen.
There is still some hope ; maybe the machines will have more compassion than humans do, or maybe we are inside the matrix already as useful parts.
There are so many unknowns in the future and our insights are so limited.
What do you mean? It's already faster than human's. I takes years for a person to learn basic language and decades to gain expert knowledge in any field.
What is meant here (and said as such in the article) is that humans can learn from a single example while deep neural networks takes thousands or millions (of examples) to learn.
Ok, but neural networks can process way more examples per second so 'faster' is not really the right term here.
Yes you are right. And I was hoping for someone more knowledgeable to help clarify this topic.
Well I was lucky with the comment of
@DigitalMusin here, if you would like to read it.