emergent

Definition

Describes capabilities that appear absent in smaller models and then seem to switch on past some scale. The claim drove a lot of scaling discussion, but it has been contested: several analyses argue the sharpness is partly an artifact of discontinuous metrics such as exact-match accuracy, and that smoother metrics reveal steady improvement. Read emergence claims together with the metric that produced them.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: GigaBrain-0.7 — 37,000 Hours of Embodied Experience and a Three-System Robot BrainGigaBrain-0.7: Scaling Embodied Foundation Models to Emergent Capabilities with a Three-System Architecture