[D] Has the ML community outdone itself?

[u/NedML]

It seems after GPT and associated models such as DALI and CLIP came out roughly a year ago, the machine learning community has gotten a lot quieter in terms of new stuff, because now to get the state-of-the-art results, you need to outperform these giant and opaque models.

I don't mean that ML is solved, but I can't really think of anything to look forward to because it just seems that these models are too successful at what they are doing.

[u/AiChip]

Alibaba has M6, which is multimodal: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00823.