[ttkciar]

Well, that's just great.

The academic community has been using the term "skill" for years, to refer to classes of tasks at which LLMs exhibit competence.

Now OpenAI has usurped the term to refer to these inference-guiding .md files.

I'm not looking forward to having to pick through a Google hit list for "LLM skills", figuring out which publications are about skills in the traditional sense and which are about the OpenAI feature. Semantic overload sucks.

How do we deal with this? Start using "competencies" (or similar) in academic papers? Or just resign ourselves to suffering the ambiguity?

Or maybe the OpenAI feature will fall flat and nobody will talk about it at all. That would frankly be the best outcome.

[jswny]

Skills are an Anthropic feature

[ttkciar]

Whoops, you are right. I misread the article.

[touristtam]

What about open? Or ai? Neither is really what they are offering. Open they are not (weight doesn't count) and don't get me started on that statistical machine they call artificial intelligence. Misleading through and through.

[lupire]

The way NNs and LLMs solve this problem is by processing context and activating middle layer nodes to disambiguate local ambiguities. Have you tried increasing your context window?