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		benob 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video] You can generate 1.0 programs with 3.0 programs. But can you generate 2.0 programs the same way?

olmo23 4 months ago [–]

2.0 programs (model weights) are created by running 1.0 programs (training runs).

I don't think it's currently possible to ask a model to generate the weights for a model.

movedx01 4 months ago | [–]

But you can generate synthetic data using a 3.0 program to train a smaller, faster, cheaper-to-run 2.0 program.

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