“My prediction is that in 10 years now, training data won't be important. All the large language models require scaling huge methods of data... So I think in 10 years, we'll have abilities of doing reasoning without needing to have millions of examples.”
Said Jun 16, 2024Deadline Dec 31, 2034Jazzyear Tech Talk, 'Kevin Kelly on Jazzyear's Tech Talk: The AI Predictions I've Never Revealed,' interview in Suzhou, June 16, 2024
Deadline is 2034; as of now frontier models still depend on massive pretraining corpora, though sample-efficient reasoning via RL and test-time compute is an active trend.