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divbzero
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How large are large language models?
The
Encyclopædia Britannica
has about 40,000,000 words [1] or about 0.25 GB if you assume 6 bytes per word. It’s impressive but not outlandish that an 8.1 GB file could encode a large swath of human information.
[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopædia_Britannica
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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopædia_Britannica