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OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

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Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

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I saw a demo of a gpt3 designing an app that looked just like Instagram home feed skeleton. While it seem impressive, but until you show me something more obscure, that was nothing to brag about.

Please please please post a link to that video. It sounds super interesting

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Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw a demo of a gpt3 designing an app that looked just like Instagram home feed skeleton. While it seem impressive, but until you show me something more obscure, that was nothing to brag about.

Please please please post a link to that video. It sounds super interesting

It was posted here: https://twitter.com/jsngr/status/1284511080715362304

Honestly not that impressive since you can get comparable results with a series of regex rules given that there are limited ways to describe your intent e.g. "create a button of colour at the "

Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

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I am deeply enjoying this comment thread - it's a bit of a Barium Meal [0] for determining how many people read (a) the headline, (b) the first paragraph, or (c) the whole thing before jumping straight into the compose box. Having read to the bottom, the quality of text generation there absolutely blew me away. GPT-2 texts have a somewhat disconnected quality - "it only makes sense if you're not really paying attenti…

GPT-3 is a neat party trick. But the things that'll be done with web archives* in the next 20y will make it look like the PDP-8. ~love, a web archivist

* GPT-3 is trained on one

Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

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I am deeply enjoying this comment thread - it's a bit of a Barium Meal [0] for determining how many people read (a) the headline, (b) the first paragraph, or (c) the whole thing before jumping straight into the compose box. Having read to the bottom, the quality of text generation there absolutely blew me away. GPT-2 texts have a somewhat disconnected quality - "it only makes sense if you're not really paying attenti…

Or maybe we're all bots too and you're the only real HN user!

I agree, responses are almost as interesting as GPT-3. And this place has always felt like one of the better when it comes to people reading past the titles!

Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

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I'm surprised that GPT-3 understands how to write coherently about GPT-3. Common Crawl, the bulk of GPT-3's training data, was collected even before GPT-2 was published. Maybe the Wikipedia dump they used was recent enough to contain a few references to GPT-2, but that's it. So if GPT-3 never saw any discussion of GPT-3, and probably almost no discussion of GPT-2, in its training data, how does it know what they are?…

I mean, you could write coherently about GPT3 without ever hearing about it before-- right? You could absolutely write coherently about it with a bit of priming text, ... I mean, that is exactly what you're doing right now. :)

Unless you work for open-ai, you've never actually seen GPT3... for all you know for sure it could be some amazing mechanical turk thing postprocessing GPT2 output :)

Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

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> no-one can train GPT-3 in any acceptable time except for those with access to large GPU/ASIC compute power (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, etc.) Any state actor has access to large compute power

But it might be hard to attract talented AI engineers to live in, say, North Korea

What about North Koreans desperate to be part of the privileged elite? They can take courses and learn just like anyone else.

Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

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> no-one can train GPT-3 in any acceptable time except for those with access to large GPU/ASIC compute power (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, etc.) Any state actor has access to large compute power

But it might be hard to attract talented AI engineers to live in, say, North Korea

How much of a choice do they have? I can't imagine many of the top engineers in North Korea are allowed to leave

Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

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I published a response today to the sudden hype urging people to temper their expectations for GPT-3 a bit: https://minimaxir.com/2020/07/gpt3-expectations/ GPT-3 is objectively a step forward in the field of AI text-generation, but the current hype on VC Twitter misrepresents the model's current capabilities. GPT-3 isn't magic.

> AI text-generation "Text generation" undersells it a little bit. What are humans except "text generation" machines? Language is the stuff of reason. GPT-3 has demonstrated capabilities that we believed were exclusive to humanity --- humor, logic, sarcasm, cultural references --- in an automatic and generalizable way. It's far more than a "text generation" system. I look forward to seeing what GPT-4 and GPT-5 can do…

I don't think any modern cognitive scientist believes that the statement "language is the stuff of reason," even allowing for poetic flair, is meaningfully true (and I'll leave aside that humans are, obviously, much more than text generation machines.) GPT-3 can generate text but the only context it has is its prompt; when humans generate text they have their complex situation in the world (and perhaps even non-worldly factors, e.g. apprehension of mathematical reality) as context. Fitting the latter kinds of context into AI models is the challenge still facing the path to AGI.

Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

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Quite good, with some exceptional paragraphs like this making it at least read as bad writing -

"I chose bitcointalk.org as the target environment for my experiments for a variety of reasons: It is a popular forum with many types of posts and posters."

Still, it's very lucid and coherent until the last generated paragraph, not bad...

Re: OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

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I am deeply enjoying this comment thread - it's a bit of a Barium Meal [0] for determining how many people read (a) the headline, (b) the first paragraph, or (c) the whole thing before jumping straight into the compose box. Having read to the bottom, the quality of text generation there absolutely blew me away. GPT-2 texts have a somewhat disconnected quality - "it only makes sense if you're not really paying attenti…

GPT-3 is a neat party trick. But the things that'll be done with web archives* in the next 20y will make it look like the PDP-8. ~love, a web archivist * GPT-3 is trained on one

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