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[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Scaling laws are disputed

Not in general.

There is not enough permissively licensed text to train models of any size, and what there is, lacks in diversity. Wikipedia, government documents, stack overflow, century old stuff, ... An LLM trained on that is not likely to be called "general purpose", because scaling laws. Sometimes such small models are trained for research purposes but I don't have a link ready. They are not something you'd actually use. Perhaps you could look at Microsoft's Phi series of models. They are trained on synthetic data, though that's probably not what you are looking for.

[-] mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

yes, I've extensively written about Phi and other related issues in a blog post which I'll share here: https://medium.com/@matthewmaybe/data-dignity-is-difficult-64ba41ee9150

this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
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