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The lacklustre performance of ChatGPT 4.5 provides further evidence that the era of steady pretraining scaling is over. This has many implications for AI governance. (www.tobyord.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] Lugh 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Yes, I think that is what the problem is here. Some people used to have the idea that more scaling would be enough for reasoning to appear, but that hasn't happened.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

the idea that more scaling would be enough for reasoning to appear

That's kinda like saying that with bigger and more boilers you can eventually make a steam engine fly. To be fair, somebody eventually flew a steam powered plane but it was never a success story.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, and the problem is also the expectation. They don't want to say the product is done, it's the best it can do because it hurts their shares, money source.