ClaimsMark Zuckerberg

“We probably could have fed it more tokens and it would have gotten somewhat better.”

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO 18 April 2024 Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus (Dwarkesh Podcast)

Factual AI capabilities

Feeding the Llama 3 model more tokens would probably have made it somewhat better.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

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Reasoning

Counterfactual about what more training tokens would have done.

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Mark Zuckerberg, “Feeding the Llama 3 model more tokens would probably have made it somewhat better.” (said 18 April 2024). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_5523afa4c4d7, method 0.1.0+3f84d14d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_5523afa4c4d7

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