The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality

While all these architectures are innovative and have helped improve either accuracy or speed, the same fundamental problem of generating factual information still exists.

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Agents and other similar methods help mitigate this. It will be interesting to see if future architectures eventually replace these techniques.

tormeh•24m ago

To me, the issue seems to be that we're training transformers to predict text, which only forces the model to embed limited amounts of logic. We'd have to find something different to train models on in order for them to stop hallucinating.

bsenftner•2m ago

I'm still thinking about how RAG being conceptually simple and easy to implement, why the foundational models have not incorporated it into their base functionality? The lack of that strikes me as a negative point about RAG and it's variants, because if any of them worked, it would be in the models directly and not need to be added afterwards.

Chloebaker•1h ago

Honestly its crazy to think how far we’ve come since GPT-2 (2019), today comparing LLMs to determine their performance is notoriously challenging and it feels like every 2 weeks a models beats a new benchmark. I’m really glad DeepSeek was mentioned here, bc the key architectural techniques it introduced in V3 that improved its computational efficiency and distinguish it from many other LLMs was really transformational when it came out.

strangescript•51m ago

The diagrams in this article are amazing if you are somewhere in between a novice and expert. Seeing all of the new models laid out next to each other is fantastic.

webappguy•2m ago

Would love to see a PT.2 w even what is rumored in top closed source frontier models eg. o5, o3 Pro, o4 or 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 4 and Claude Opus 4