Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev

The recently released Jev AI model has been quite a cultural phenomenon in technical communities in the past 2 weeks. While Jev aims to classify things, it’s easy to dismiss Jev as “just a classifier,” and my own view of Jev has evolved quite a bit over the past few days. In particular, my thoughts went from “classifiers used to be my bread & butter; I can easily build this myself” (more on this l...