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Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

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I love the title "Big LLMs" because it means that we are now making a distinction between big LLMs and minute LLMs and maybe medium LLMs. I'd like to propose the we call them "Tall LLMs", "Grande LLMs", and "Venti LLMs" just to be precise.

it's too bad vLLM and VLM are taken because it would have been nice to recycle the VLSI solution to describing sizes - get to very large language models and leave it at that.

we could also look to magnetoresistance and go for giant, colossal, extraordinary

Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

#42
post #34

I love the title "Big LLMs" because it means that we are now making a distinction between big LLMs and minute LLMs and maybe medium LLMs. I'd like to propose the we call them "Tall LLMs", "Grande LLMs", and "Venti LLMs" just to be precise.

it's too bad vLLM and VLM are taken because it would have been nice to recycle the VLSI solution to describing sizes - get to very large language models and leave it at that.

After very large language models, the next step is mega language models, or MLMs. As a bonus, it describes the VC funding scheme that backs them too.

Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

#43

I love the title "Big LLMs" because it means that we are now making a distinction between big LLMs and minute LLMs and maybe medium LLMs. I'd like to propose the we call them "Tall LLMs", "Grande LLMs", and "Venti LLMs" just to be precise.

LLM, LLM 2.0, LLM 3.0, Mini LLM, Micro LLM, LLM C.

Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

#44

I love the title "Big LLMs" because it means that we are now making a distinction between big LLMs and minute LLMs and maybe medium LLMs. I'd like to propose the we call them "Tall LLMs", "Grande LLMs", and "Venti LLMs" just to be precise.

Terrible names, to be honest. My proposal: Hyper LLMs, Ultra LLMs, Large LLMs, Micro LLMs, Mobile LLMs.

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Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

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That's really what these are: something analogous to JPEG for language, and queryable in natural language. Tangent: I was thinking the other day: these are not AI in the sense that they are not primarily intelligence . I still don't see much evidence of that. What they do give me is superhuman memory. The main thing I use them for is search, research, and a "rubber duck" that talks back, and it's like having an inter…

Or 80 years to MVP memex “Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

The memex was a deterministic device to consult documents - the actual documents. The "LLM" is more like a dumb archivist that came with it ("Yes, see for example that document, it tells you that q=M·k...").

Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

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can we have tiny LLM that can run on smartphone now

Apple Intelligence has an LLM that runs locally on the iPhone (15 Pro and up). But the quality of Apple Intelligence shows us what happens when you use a tiny ultra-low-wattage LLM. There’s a whole subreddit dedicated to its notable fails: https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleIntelligenceFail/top/?t=all One example of this is “Sorry I was very drunk and went home and crashed straight into bed” being summarized by Apple Inte…

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Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

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I love the title "Big LLMs" because it means that we are now making a distinction between big LLMs and minute LLMs and maybe medium LLMs. I'd like to propose the we call them "Tall LLMs", "Grande LLMs", and "Venti LLMs" just to be precise.

Terrible names, to be honest. My proposal: Hyper LLMs, Ultra LLMs, Large LLMs, Micro LLMs, Mobile LLMs.

LLM M4 Ultra Pro Max 16e (with headphone jack)

Re: Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

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can we have tiny LLM that can run on smartphone now

I want a tiny_phone_based LLM to do thought tracking and comms awareness.. I actually applied to YC in like ~2014 or such for thus; -JotPlot - I wanted a timeline for basically giving a histo timeline of comms btwn me and others - such that I had a sankey-ish diagram for when and whom and via method I spoke with folks and then each node eas the message, call, text, meta links... I think its still viable - but my thou…

I had a thought that I think some people value social media (e.g. Facebook) essentially for this. Like giving up your Facebook profile means giving up your history or family tree or even your memories.

So in that sense, maybe people would prefer a private alternative.

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