The defining structural lesson of 2019 was that task-specific programming was a secondary pursuit. By demonstrating that a massive 1.5-billion-parameter model like GPT-2 could independently transition from generating realistic text to translating languages, answering reading comprehension questions, and summarizing articles without receiving a single task-specific parameter update, the field of artificial intelligence discovered that pure parameter and data scale unlocks autonomous emergent intelligence.
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