HACKER Q&A
📣 franze

Why are we still calling LLMs LLMs?


I was just thinking with them being trained on Text, Images, Audios, Videos ... shouldn't they be called LIMs - Large Information Models?


  👤 dapoyo Accepted Answer ✓
They all usually share the ability to answer via text. That's why we still call them LLMs!

👤 throwawayffffas
Because the language is the point. They are not trained to generate, edit or manipulate images, audio and video.

They are trained to generate summaries or to create prompts for other models that generate, edit, and manipulate other media.

Unless, of course I am horribly behind the times and they are stuffing all kind of other tasks in the LLM themselves.


👤 franze
Or LMM - Large Multimodal Model?