The defining structural lesson of 2018 was that starting from scratch was obsolete. For decades, natural language processing required training isolated, small models for individual linguistic tasks. The arrival of BERT and GPT-1 shattered this paradigm. By proving that a massive Transformer architecture pre-trained once on infinite unsupervised internet text could transfer its deep semantic understanding to any target task with minimal fine-tuning, the field of artificial intelligence discovered its permanent scaling blueprint.
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