Generating a set of weights is not learning.
replywould you say that airplanes don't fly because they don't flap their wings? it's possible to achieve the same things with different approaches.
replyThat is a strong statement. I guess you are telling Machine Learning to go fuck itself.
replyNo, Machine Learning is an unfortunate name for a well documented process for creating black-box classifiers. The process is good, the name is not.
replyAnd what, to your mind, would classify something as learning? I assume that your position is not the hard "only humans/living creatures can learn"
replyGreat! Neither is distillation then.
replyNever said it was.
Still, understanding to what extent the ability of Chinese labs to keep up to western models with much less compute needs to be understood.
replyMachines are not humans.
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