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Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

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Re: Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

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I expect we'll see some very interesting, very big models following it. I didn't dig too far into the code but the library looks very easy to use and will open up a lot of doors for people who have a few or a few thousand GPUs.

I must be missing it, where did you find a link to the code?

Re: Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

any books/papers that address "goal" oriented NLP or hybrid based discussion?

The ability to set your own goals and task yourself to achieve them is the essence of AI. Not "AI" as we know it today, but Sci-fi AI where it's a machine person.

Is it? It's pretty clear that this kind of activity isn't that common in humans - mostly we pick up our goals from cues and drivers in our environment and society.

Re: Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

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post #47

I expect we'll see some very interesting, very big models following it. I didn't dig too far into the code but the library looks very easy to use and will open up a lot of doors for people who have a few or a few thousand GPUs.

I must be missing it, where did you find a link to the code?

The code for the distributed training library, not the model - https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/

Re: Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

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What exactly do you expect from these Transformer-based models? This particular one is underwhelming because it provides a tiny improvement over the previous largest one (from Nvidia) with more than double the size. The fundamental limitation of these "optimization tools" as you call them - they don't have any common sense, and any way to query an external source of information (e.g. wikipedia), or ask a human to cla…

> they don't have any common sense What do you mean by this? Of course they do, learned from their training data. For example, here is quote from conversation 38 of https://github.com/google-research/google-research/blob/mast... Human: Do you like Korean food in general? Meena: It's okay. I like beef bulgogi, but I'm not a huge fan of kimchi. It seems to me Meena "knows" bulgogi and kimchi are Korean foods. Isn't tha…

I'd buy that if Meena could infer and reason about her own answers.

Human: Do you like Korean food in general?

Meena: It's okay. I like beef bulgogi, but I'm not a huge fan of kimchi.

Human: Ok what should I shop for ?

Meena : You've got almost everything but you need a pear, the steak and some ginger.

The problem with language models as commonsense is that they are collections of patterns and associations, and that they don't have inference models or solvers - unlike my dog for example!

Re: Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

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I'm not saying this will spawn AI. Just that, like computer vision was essentially solved by CNNs, NLP will be solved by transformer models.

>computer vision was essentially solved by CNNs That is a rather contentious claim.

To say the least.

Re: Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

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This does GPT-2 X 10. For anyone wondering what GPT-2 is doing look at this baffling subreddit and marvel at how one GPT-2 model trained for $70k spits out better comedy than everybody on the payroll of Netflix combined. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/

There's nothing inherently funny about entries like this one [1], I mean, there is, as in it is sort of funny how the AI got tricked so quickly into doing incest jokes, but I guess that was not the research team's intended goal.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/f1ifp6/my...

Re: Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

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This does GPT-2 X 10. For anyone wondering what GPT-2 is doing look at this baffling subreddit and marvel at how one GPT-2 model trained for $70k spits out better comedy than everybody on the payroll of Netflix combined. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/

Simulating r/StonerPhilosophy[1]

Post: Do we live in a simulation?

Comment: I just realized, we are a simulation, and we are a simulated simulation.

Comment: We're all in a simulation. We're still here. We're all in this little ball together

Comment: The simulation hypothesis states that we are in a simulation. Which means that there is a possibility that we are not in a simulation.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/ez6qtj/do...

Re: Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

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This does GPT-2 X 10. For anyone wondering what GPT-2 is doing look at this baffling subreddit and marvel at how one GPT-2 model trained for $70k spits out better comedy than everybody on the payroll of Netflix combined. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/

GPT-2 X 10 is misleading; this model size is 10x, sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean the output will be 10x better. For r/SubSimulatorGPT2, it did go from 355M to 1.5B recently, but the quality isn't necessarily 4x (although it did improve).

I'm more interested in shrinking models that maintain the same level of generative robustness (e.g. distillation, with distilGPT2)

Re: Turing-NLG: A 17B-parameter language model

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People are vastly underestimating the changes that are about to come from NLP. The basic ideas of how to get language models working are just about in place. Transformer networks, and recent innovations like GPT-2, googles reformer model, etc are precursors to the real machine learning boom. Machine learning as we have known it, has been stuck as an optimization tool, and used for computer vision here and there. NLP,…

Feels like I’ve heard this tune before. Actually, I think it was first played in the 1950s.
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