In this post, we highlight the desire to replace tokenization with a general method that better leverages compute and data. We’ll see tokenization’s role, its fragility and we’ll build a case for removing it. After understanding the design space, we’ll explore the potential impacts of a recent promising candidate (Byte Latent Transformer) and build strong intuitions around new core mechanics. https://webdesignernews.com/the-bitter-lesson-is-coming-for-tokenization/
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