Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

Re:Big LLMs weights are a piece of history by flower-giraffe on Sunday March 16, 2025 @09:44AM (#43379057)

Or 80 years to MVP memex

“Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

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Re:Big LLMs weights are a piece of history by mdp2021 on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:34AM (#43379828)

The memex was a deterministic device to consult documents - the actual documents. The "LLM" is more like a dumb archivist that came with it ("Yes, see for example that document, it tells you that q=M·k...").

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Re:Big LLMs weights are a piece of history by skydhash on Sunday March 16, 2025 @01:44PM (#43380758)

I grew up with physical encyclopedia, then moved on to Encarta, then Wikipedia dumps and folders full of PDFs. I still prefer curated information repository over chat interfaces or generated summaries. The main goal with the former is to have a knowledge map and keywords graph, so that you can locate any piece of information you may need from the actual source.

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