System 1 Models or Universal Classifiers?
My feed has been overrun by mentions of Jev from TypeSafe AI - Introducing System One Models and Jev and many folks are stuffing it into every use case imaginable while others are claiming that it is “just” another classifier. I did a little bit of experimentation over the weekend: What it IS: Jev is closest to what is called a Zero Shot Classifier that is hosted with a low latency API around it (having a classical ML background helps here). This is not trivial - Classifiers have been around for a long time but a general purpose Classifier => Any classifier task zero shot => No need to provide examples first hosted low latency=> Fast API/SDK Call ultra low cost=> Much cheaper than most LLMs unlocks a lot of use cases that AI people find mind-blowing. ...