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AI Assistant Fine-Tuning Strategy
A startup is developing a general-purpose AI assistant using a pre-trained large language model. Their goal is to create a single model that can handle a wide variety of user requests, such as drafting emails, summarizing articles, and answering factual questions. They have a limited budget for data collection and model training. They are considering two different strategies for creating their fine-tuning dataset:
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Strategy A: Create a single, unified dataset that mixes together thousands of examples of email drafting, article summarization, and question-answering, with each example framed as a specific instruction (e.g., "Summarize the following text:", "Draft an email to...").
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Strategy B: Create three separate, highly specialized datasets—one exclusively for email drafting, one for summarization, and one for question-answering. They would then train three separate, specialized models.
Given the startup's goal of creating a single, versatile AI assistant with a limited budget, which strategy should they choose? Justify your recommendation by explaining the likely impact of the chosen data strategy on the model's final capabilities.
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