• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    When did the training happen? The LLM is trained for the task starting when the task is assigned. The developer’s training has already completed, for this task at least.

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      9 months ago

      No? The LLM was trained before you ever even interacted with it. They’re not going to train a model on the fly each time you want to use it, that’s fucking ridiculous.

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        9 months ago

        That’s the joke that the comic is making. Whether or not it’s reflective of reality, they’re joking about a company training a new AI model to calculate the area of rectangles.

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        And even if they do need to train a model, transfer learning is often a viable shortcut