Few-Shot Learning: The Foundational Paper Behind Modern LLMs
OpenAI's 'Language Models are Few-Shot Learners' paper **revolutionized AI** by proving LLMs learn from in-context examples without finetuning. Pretrained models can **solve new tasks** by reading examples in prompts: a discovery that preceded widespread chatbot adoption and finetuning. **Cited 68,413 times since 2020**, this paper is as foundational as 'Attention Is All You Need' for understanding modern AI capabilities.
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