The A.I. Daily
Small-scale replication: good views beat next-token prediction
A researcher replicated Balestriero and LeCun's “good views” paper at laptop scale, using 10,000 COCO photos, human captions and 11M-parameter encoders. Good views scored 0.320 versus 0.192 for bad views and 0.148 for next-token prediction; scale limits remain.