Evaluating Data Generation Strategy for a General-Purpose LLM
A major tech company is developing a new, highly versatile, general-purpose language model intended to handle a vast range of user instructions, from creative writing to complex logical reasoning. The project lead proposes to build the entire instruction fine-tuning dataset exclusively through manual data generation, hiring a large team of human annotators. Critically evaluate this strategy. In your response, discuss at least two significant challenges or limitations the company would likely face with this approach and justify why they are particularly problematic for their goal.
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Ch.4 Alignment - Foundations of Large Language Models
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Evaluating Data Generation Strategy for a General-Purpose LLM