alt Hacker News> BERT isn’t a SLM
Huh? BERT is literally a language model that's small and uses attention.
And we had good language models before BERT too.
They were a royal bitch to train properly, though. Nowadays you can get the same with just 30 minutes of prompt engineering.
> > BERT isn’t a SLM Huh? BERT is literally a language model that's small and uses attention.
Astute readers will note what’s been missed here.
Fascinating, really. Your confidently-statement yet factually void comments I’d have previously put down to one of the classic programmer mindsets. Nowadays though - where do I see that kind of thing most often? Curious.