Scaling: The State of Play in AI

By Ethan Mollick

This post explains the "scaling laws" that drive rapid AI progress: when you make AI models bigger and train them with more computing power, they get smarter at most tasks. The piece also introduces a second scaling law, where AI performance improves by spending more time "thinking" before responding.

Source:

|https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/scaling-the-state-of-play-in-ai

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Chapters

• 0:51 Scaling Model Size: Putting the Large in Large Language Models
• 7:38 Your Five-ish Frontier Gen2 Models
• 21:22 A new form of scale: thinking
• 23:25 What’s next?