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Junior Dev VS Machine Learning (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

No? The LLM was trained before you ever even interacted with it. They're not going to train a model on the fly each time you want to use it, that's fucking ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

That's the joke that the comic is making. Whether or not it's reflective of reality, they're joking about a company training a new AI model to calculate the area of rectangles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

And even if they do need to train a model, transfer learning is often a viable shortcut