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Bryk: Neural link prediction is strictly more powerful than Google's PageRank
“The link prediction objective can be seen as like a neural page rank, because what you're doing is you're predicting the links people share. And so if everyone is sharing some Paul Graham essay about fundraising, then like our model is more likely to predict i…”
Bryk: Smaller LLMs with search tools are vastly superior to massive memorization models
“Yes, I believe this is a much more optimal system to have a smaller LLM that's really just like an intelligence module. And it makes a call to a search tool. That's way more efficient because if, okay, I mean, the opposite of that would be like the LLM is so b…”
Bryk: The internet's content strictly mirrors what search engines optimize for
“Whatever the search engine optimizes for is what the internet looks like.”
Bryk: Search engines do not need PhD-level training data
“With search, you're asking, like, simple questions about billions of things, like, is this a startup? Did this person write a blog post about search? You know, those are actually simple questions. You don't need, like, PhD level training data.”
Bryk: Comprehensive web search requires variable compute scaled to query complexity
“What you basically have to do is you have to put more compute into the query, into the search, until you get the full comprehensiveness. And I think there's an interesting point here, which is that not all queries are made equal. Some queries, just like this b…”
Bryk: 200x drop in LLM costs requires rethinking search from scratch
“When some very useful tool goes down in cost by 200 X in like the space of, I don't know, a couple years, There are going to be new opportunities in search, right? So like, to not integrate this and build up, to not like rethink search from scratch, the search…”