Evidence receipt / belief
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24 Dec 2025 Machine Learning Street Talk "I Desperately Want To Live In The Matrix" - Dr. Mike Israetel
“The transformer part is true, but just calling it a large language model, I think cuts it all short of a huge fraction of its capability.”
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- Mike Israetel
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- 24 Dec 2025
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- Machine Learning Street Talk
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…Yeah. It's multimodal, but it's it's still a self attention transformer. It has a couple of tricks. The transformer part is true, but just calling it a large language model, I think cuts it all short of a huge fraction of its capability. I mean, does visual reasoning. Doesn't make any difference.…
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