Good old fashion ML is dying

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3 years ago

LLMs popularized zero-shot learning, or “prompt engineering” which is drastically easier to use and more effective than labeling data.

You can also retrofit “prompt engineering” onto good old fashion ML like text classifiers. I wrote a library to do just that here: https://github.com/lamini-ai/llm-classifier

IMO, it’s a short matter of time before this takes over all of what used to be called “deep learning”. Supervised learned, which required Herculean efforts to label big datasets was important to prove that deep learning worked, but we have been engineering it to be easier and more effective ever since and there is no going back.

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