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Karpathy comments on LLM intelligence trade-offs

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Andrej Karpathy commented on a tweet discussing LLM intelligence trade-offs.

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He described it as a point on the LLM pareto optimal curve.The comment addresses a regime with large revealed latent demand for low latency intelligence.

This contrasts with the current race toward higher intelligence models.

Original · Andrej Karpathy

@willdepue I see it as a point on the LLM pareto optimal curve in a regime that had a large revealed latent demand (no thinking, single token, low latency acceptable intelligence) that was under-invested into because of a race to higher intelligence.📊 165 ⚡

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Source attribution: curated from Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy).