Emergence

Noun · AI & Machine Learning

Definitions

  1. The appearance of higher-level behaviors or capabilities that are not obvious from inspecting individual components alone and may become visible only at certain scales. In AI, emergence is often discussed when larger systems exhibit new behaviors absent in smaller ones.

    In plain English: New behaviors appearing at scale that were not obvious before.

    Example: "They debated whether tool use was true emergence or just better elicitation of capabilities that had been latent all along."

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