How is the economist qualified to answer this question?
Actually, now that I think of it, not so different from LLMs…
(Full disclosure, I’ve been a subscriber for a couple of decades)
(Long-time Economist subscriber.)
This specific article seems to be reporting on a very technical issue on how to continue to scale LLM. Even scientific papers have a hard time answering those kind of questions because unless in very special circumstances where we can show with a good confidence that there are limitations (P vs NP for instance) the answer will simply be given by the most successful approach.