emergent capabilities
ih-MUR-junt kuh-PAB-ih-lih-teez
ɪˈmɜːrdʒənt kəˈpæbɪlɪtɪzListen
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abilities that appear in large language models at a certain scale of training compute and parameters but are absent in smaller models, and were not explicitly trained for; documented emergent capabilities include multi-step arithmetic, analogical reasoning, chain-of-thought problem solving, and translation between low-resource language pairs; the existence of emergent capabilities has been both celebrated as evidence of scaling laws producing qualitatively new intelligence and disputed by researchers who argue that apparent emergence is an artefact of evaluation methodology and that capabilities increase smoothly with scale when measured appropriately
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