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ERNIE feels old, like BERT. They either need a rebrand or fully embrace retro-dawn-of-ML vibes

BERT models are still amazing for what they do. Even the latest JEV/KEV/SEV/BEV/REV/TREV models can't beat a well-trained BERT.

do you have examples of open weight BERT models from hugging face which are trained for specific use cases?

For these small models, you would fine tune them on your use case. https://huggingface.co/transformers/v4.8.2/training.html

hehe, so much in a name... just today I told Claude off for recommending me a BERT model for voice identification and it told me it was actually SOTA 2025!

https://arxiv.org/html/2510.04213v1

Very old .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bonds#ERNIE

Bert and Ernie. Ring a bell? Sesame Street

I'd like to see Big Bird drop his weights next

I predict it will be ELMO with hands to the sky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELMo

... My mind wandered to the old Xbox font exploits. Bert & Ernie Reloaded!

http://archiv.sega-dc.de/phoenix.maxconsole.net/docs/bertern...

I'd try DONALD for sure, if I wanted to kill a project.

But they didn't give a DONALD.

Make AI Great Again?

SI*

Trump just realised that he can't use MAGA for Making SI Great Again, probably giving an executive order to reverse SI to AI again, to be able to claim Make AI Great Again

I am PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE that SI will be America’s 51st STATE and will be RENAMED to “American Intelligence”! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Lake Intelligence

Yes?

Curious he didn't rename it American Intelligence instead.

I threw up a little reading that. As an American, even I know that's an oxymoron.

> I'd try DONALD for sure, if I wanted to kill a project.

The current version is threatening to veto all my prompts.

...and when it makes a mistake, it blames anything or anyone else but itself, or insists that what it did is perfect the way it is and that it's still the smartest model in the world?

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