AI's Inevitable Simplification: The Washing Away of Scaffolding In a recent Latent Space podcast, Noam Brown (OpenAI) shared a fascinating perspective on the future of AI development. He argues that much of the complex scaffolding we build today to work around current AI limitations will likely become obsolete as models continue to scale and improve. Think back to the early days of AI agents. We used intricate systems to coax reasoning-like behavior from models that weren't inherently capable of it. Then came reasoning models, and poof – much of that scaffolding was no longer needed. Brown predicts the same will happen with current "harnesses" and even model routers. As models become more powerful and unified, these external structures will fade away. It's a powerful reminder that in AI, scale and capability often lead to simplification. https://lnkd.in/gnC-DP43
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The $AMD 🤝 OpenAI — a multi-billion-dollar GPU deal just one of many A.I. related deals that have happened in recent weeks🔥 #ArtificialIntelligence #TechStocks #Semiconductors For more insight into AI, see the link below.
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