Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)

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Exploring the scaling challenges of transformer-based LLMs in efficiently processing large amounts of text, as well as potential solutions, such as RAG systems  —  Large language models represent text using tokens, each of which is a few characters.  Short words are represented by a single token …