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19 Oct 2023 Latent Space The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai

“You know, particularly in kind of an enterprise setting, I think there's a lot of like repetitive kind of processing that has to be done. It's a useful thing for coders to know about, because I think quite often you can like replace some thousands and thousands of lines of complex buggy code, maybe with a fine tune, you know.”

— Jeremy Howard

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Jeremy Howard
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belief
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19 Oct 2023
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Latent Space

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…I think that's the struggle of pitching small models, because small is great, you know, you don't need a lot of resources to run them, but the performance evaluation is always so iffy, it's always just like, yeah, it works on some things, and we don't trust it for others. Yeah, so that's why we're back to fine tuning. So Microsoft did create a 5.1.5 web, but they didn't release it, unfortunately. I would say a 5.1.5 web with fine tuning for your task, you know, might quite, you know, might solve a lot of tasks that people have in their kind of day-to-day lives. You know, particularly in kind of an enterprise setting, I think there's a lot of like repetitive kind of processing that has to be done. It's a useful thing for coders to know about, because I think quite often you can like replace some thousands and thousands of lines of complex buggy code, maybe with a fine tune, you know. Got it. Yeah.…

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