What Thomas Wolf thinks about LLMs
Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Thomas Wolf has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsWe're currently building very obedient students, not revolutionaries. This is perfect for today’s main goal in the field of creating great assistants and overly compliant helpers. But until we find a way to incentivize them to question their knowledge and propose ideas that potentially go against past training data, they won't give us scientific revolutions yet.