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  • BERT is a special case. The academic consensus is rightly considering it an LLM since it operates on text but the industry doesn’t consider it an LLM since LLM in its colloquial meaning has drifted to mean a model generating text (which BERT doesn’t). Whisper is not an LLM since it’s working on audio, so it is an Automatic Speech Recognition model (ASR).

    Text in = LLM in academic circles (BERT and GPT)

    Text in, text out = LLM in all circles (GPT only)

    Audio in, text out ≠ LLM (Whisper)

    Now, we can argue whether we want to accept the colloquial meaning of LLM, but the fact is that Whisper is not an LLM. And neither ASR nor BERT causes even a fraction of the damage GPT is doing, but that’s another discussion.









  • For a project I liked I saw that the translation of the UI was only about 1% complete for my native language. I decided to dedicate the weekend to get it above 95%. This was apparently the part that seemed too hard for most to make a dent in, but across several new versions my language is still 100%. I think my groundwork made it easier for some sporadic contributors to get a small bit of dopamine when updating the few new strings in a release to see it hit 100% again.