Essay | Summer 2024
The Era of Predictive AI Is Almost Over
“Language models are just glorified autocomplete” has been the critics’ refrain — but reinforcement learning is proving them wrong. New breakthroughs could follow.
Dean W. Ball is a research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center and author of the newsletter Hyperdimensional.
In The New Atlantis
Essay | Summer 2024
“Language models are just glorified autocomplete” has been the critics’ refrain — but reinforcement learning is proving them wrong. New breakthroughs could follow.