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Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models

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Can someone ELI5 me why suddenly LLM and transformers became all the rage in AI scene?

Transfomers are currently state of art i.e. the problems that transformers are currently solving cant be solved better by any other known technique/algorithm. Thats the main reason why they are so popular at the moment. LLMs are popular right now because a recent transformer based neural network has proven to be fun/useful i.e. gpt-3/chatgpt. A lot more useful than previous language models at least.

Re: Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models

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Can someone ELI5 me why suddenly LLM and transformers became all the rage in AI scene?

Transformers were used on text to train models without needing labeled data. People realized that simply scaling the data and models meant better performance. when they scaled even further, emergent intelligence started appearing and the models were dominating every known task. Now everyone wants an LLM

Re: Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models

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The chain-of-thought prompting in section 4.5 is extremely interesting to me, but it looks like they're missing a test group - what is the performance if the image is simply described and then the task is evaluated using only the text of the description, not only when combined with the image.

Re: Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models

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Can someone ELI5 me why suddenly LLM and transformers became all the rage in AI scene?

Transfomers are currently state of art i.e. the problems that transformers are currently solving cant be solved better by any other known technique/algorithm. Thats the main reason why they are so popular at the moment. LLMs are popular right now because a recent transformer based neural network has proven to be fun/useful i.e. gpt-3/chatgpt. A lot more useful than previous language models at least.

RWKV is showing that maybe RNNs can perform on par with transformers

https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM

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