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Day 45: Emergent Abilities in LLMs

What Are Emergent Abilities? Emergent abilities are skills or behaviors that a system unexpectedly develops once it becomes complex enough—even though these abilities weren’t programmed in directly.

  • Emergent abilities in LLMs emerge once models reach a certain size or complexity.
  • Arithmetic and translation skills appear in larger LLMs but not in smaller ones.
  • In-context learning capability emerges in larger LLMs, allowing pattern extension from few examples.

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