We’ll have small local models beating gpt-4/Claude opus in 2024. We already have sub 100b models trading blows with former gpt-4 models, and the future is racing toward us. All these little breakthroughs are piling up.
Most teachers are kids who go to college at 18 with no idea of what they’re capable of, who spend a pile of money to be a teacher because of idealistic principles inside them combined with an interest in teaching. They are certified, highly trained, and even highly specialized for their grade level and content.
Teaching isn’t a field littered with people who failed to launch elsewhere. The four to six year college barrier to entry (that’s four to six years of teacher focused classes, in person unpaid internships and full time unpaid student teaching that ranges from 3 months to more than a full year of unpaid full time work in a classroom as a teacher, certification testing, etc) all for a job that is critically underpaid and unappreciated, attacked both by the children in the school, and by people like you who tell them their noble decision to dedicate their life to educating your children means they’re a failure or a loser in some way. That isn’t something a “failure” is going to chase.
These teachers achieve a bachelors level degree (or higher) in education, are specifically trained teach through a multitude of specialized classes, have to spend upwards of a year doing completely unpaid in person full-time internships, and are as highly trained and educated in their field as any college graduate who achieved a bachelors or higher.
Most teachers cannot afford to live in the communities they serve with current housing and rent prices. The current state of education funding and school overcrowding means many of those teachers who put their heads down and soldier through are coming out of pocket with hundreds or even thousands of personal dollars just for basic school supplies like paper, while teaching class sizes that have ballooned to unreachable levels. I had classes with more than 40 students in a classroom that seated 38 max.
“Couldn’t make it in their own field.”?
Teaching IS our field, and the things that are killing our education system are not teacher-lead.
Maybe stop spouting nonsense and go look at a school. The young teachers are bright eyed idealists with tens of thousands in student loans who are fresh off bachelors degrees, and the old grizzled teachers are the young ones who survived and stuck around - they have been doing their job for literal decades. The places you find uncertified teachers (the human beings you’re denigrating) working in classrooms are usually the extremely underserved, underpaid, and desperate schools and communities and states where it’s extremely difficult to find any certified teacher (like a rural town with high housing prices, nothing in town to rent at a number a teacher could afford, and a sub-$40,000 starting wage for teachers in the year 2024).
My only regret is that teachers failed to teach you to recognize the Fox News style propaganda you’re regurgitating. Bashing teachers does humanity no favors. We should strive for livable wages, functional safe workplaces, reasonable commutes, and affordable housing for all workers, regardless of career, because a functioning society needs all of us, from doctors to burger flippers, and especially teachers.
Last time round we got our hands on 7B-70b models.
Presumably, a company with as much compute as Meta can train even larger models that weren’t released, that would greatly benefit from the massive global efforts expended for free on the smaller open source LLM family tree of models. And their architecture ends up largely adopted by the open source community, helping build advanced tools to utilize those models.
We’ll have small local models beating gpt-4/Claude opus in 2024. We already have sub 100b models trading blows with former gpt-4 models, and the future is racing toward us. All these little breakthroughs are piling up.