Narrow, function-specific models—one model for language translation, another for sentiment analysis, and so on—have over the past few years given way to general-purpose “foundation models” capable of carrying out the full range of downstream tasks.)
(An analogous pattern can even be traced out in the recent trajectory of AI models, though in this example everything is software. Narrow, function-specific models—one model for language translation, another for sentiment analysis, and so on—have over the past few years given way to general-purpose “foundation models” capable of carrying out the full range of downstream tasks.)