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Bill Gates told a German newspaper that GPT5 wouldn't be much better than GPT4: "there are reasons to believe that we have reached a plateau" [N] (www.handelsblatt.com)

submitted 10 months ago by we_are_mammals@alien.top to c/machinelearning@academy.garden

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[–] Appropriate_Ant_4629@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We need a name for the fallacy where people call highly nonlinear algorithms with billions of parameters "just statistics"

Well, thanks to quantum mechanics; pretty much all of existence is probably "just statistics".

as if all they're doing is linear regression.

Well, practically all interesting statistics are NONlinear regressions. Including ML. And your brain. And physics.

[–] KoalaNumber3@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What a lot of people don’t understand is that linear regression can still handle non-linear relationships.

For a statistician, linear regression just means the coefficients are linear, it doesn’t mean the relationship itself is a straight line.

That’s why linear models are still incredibly powerful and are used so widely across so many fields.

[–] Appropriate_Ant_4629@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Yet still limited compared to even not-very-deep NNs. If the user wants to fit a parabola with a linear regression, he pretty much has to manually add a quadratic term himself.

I think they're widely used primarily because they're widely taught in school.