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“State-of-the-art” (Sota) artificial intelligence models<\/span> excel at solving complex Olympiad maths but still struggle with everyday enterprise tasks, according to an executive from a top AI unicorn in the US.<\/div>\n
David Meyer, senior vice-president of product at US data processing and analysis company Databricks, told the South China Morning Post in a recent interview that the very traits making models state-of-the-art could cause issues in basic office work<\/span>. For instance, when tasked with identifying an erroneous number on an invoice, a Sota model “will oftentimes fix the mistake” rather than simply extracting the error for downstream correction, he said.<\/div>\n
The discrepancy extends to other highly technical domains as well. While advanced models such as Anthropic’s Claude<\/span> were powerful at coding, they could lag in tasks like data engineering compared with models with significantly more specialised training and data in this area, according to Meyer.<\/div>\n
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Data engineering involves transforming datasets at scale and performing cleaning tasks, such as handling null values and zeros.<\/p>\n

“A single model, no matter how large, can’t be equally good at all things,” he said.<\/p>\n

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To solve these specific complexities more efficiently, Meyer pointed to the use of small open-source models<\/span> refined with reinforcement learning. This allowed for a specific purpose at a level of training cost “orders of magnitude lower” than Sota models, according to Meyer.<\/div>\n
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The very traits making models “state-of-the-art” may cause issues in basic office work, according to David Meyer. Photo: Handout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“State-of-the-art” (Sota) artificial intelligence models excel at solving complex Olympiad maths but still struggle with everyday enterprise tasks, according to an executive from a top AI unicorn in the US. David Meyer, senior vice-president of product at US data processing and analysis company Databricks, told the South China Morning Post in a recent interview that…<\/p>\n

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