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> It is clear much of the people below don't even understand basic terminology. Something being a transformer doesn't make it an LLM (vision transformers, anyone) and if you aren't training on language (e.g. AlphaFold, or Aristotle on LEAN stuff), it isn't a "language" model.

I think it's because it comes off as you are saying that we should move off of GenAI, and alot of people use LLM when they mean GenAI.

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Ugh, you're right. This was not intended. Conflating LLMs with GenAI is a serious error, but you're right, it is obviously a far more common error than I realized. I clearly should have said "move beyond solely LLMs" or "move beyond LLMs in isolation", perhaps this would have avoided the confusion.

This is a really hopeful result for GenAI (fitting deep models tuned by gradient descent on large amounts of data), and IMO this is possible because of specific domain knowledge and approaches that aren't there in the usual LLM approaches.

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