Remembering Solomonoff: The Link Between LLMs and Compression
An article commemorating Ray Solomonoff's 100th birthday highlights the intrinsic relationship between compression and intelligence. It explains that pre-training Large Language Models is fundamentally an act of next-token prediction, reinforcing the idea that better compression equates to greater intelligence.
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