I agree this is a potential outcome. One big question is generalizability versus niche models. For example, is the best legal model a frontier model + a giant context window + RAG? Or is it a niche model trained or fine tuned for law?
Right now at least people seem to decouple some measures of how smart the model is from knowledge base, and at least for now the really big models seem smartest. So part of the question is well is how insightful / synthesis centric the model needs to be versus effectively doing regressions....
Right now at least people seem to decouple some measures of how smart the model is from knowledge base, and at least for now the really big models seem smartest. So part of the question is well is how insightful / synthesis centric the model needs to be versus effectively doing regressions....