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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Language models are better than humans at next-token prediction · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2212.11281/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2212.11281/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Language models are better than humans at next-token prediction — mentioned by famouswaffles</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35978295</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2212.11281:35978295</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 17:11:28 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;LLMs reached super-human ability on their task long ago. Everything else is a nice side quest. https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11281&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2212.11281/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Language models are better than humans at next-token prediction — mentioned by famouswaffles</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35960748</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2212.11281:35960748</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2023 12:14:21 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;You also literally said that: &amp;gt; We already know that the higher the parameter count, the lower the training data required &amp;gt;And if you scroll up a bit, you&amp;#x27;ll see that this was the assertion that I&amp;#x27;ve been questioning since the beginning. They follow each other. If you have a target in mind, it&amp;#x27;s the same thing in different words. &amp;gt;AFAIK, there&amp;#x27;s no reason to believe that the current architecture of LLM scaled to 100 trillions of parameters would be able to be trained efficiently on just a few millions of token like humans I didn&amp;#x27;t say it was a given. And in my original comment , I say as…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2212.11281/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item></channel></rss>
