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GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free

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Re: GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free

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post #123

Serious question: is there a warez scene for trained models yet? (I don't know how the model is accessed - are users of mainline GPT-3 given a .pb and a stack of NDAs, or do they have to access it through access-controlled API?) Wherever data is desired by many but held by a few, a pirate crew inevitably emerges.

I think this also might be an interest to you https://the-eye.eu/public/AI/pile_preliminary_components/

Those are datasets though, not models.

Re: GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free

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post #123

Serious question: is there a warez scene for trained models yet? (I don't know how the model is accessed - are users of mainline GPT-3 given a .pb and a stack of NDAs, or do they have to access it through access-controlled API?) Wherever data is desired by many but held by a few, a pirate crew inevitably emerges.

The model is huge and is currently run in the cloud on many machines.

It's only 175 billion parameters, so presumably it can fit on a single computer with 1024 GB RAM.

Re: GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free

#204
post #123

Serious question: is there a warez scene for trained models yet? (I don't know how the model is accessed - are users of mainline GPT-3 given a .pb and a stack of NDAs, or do they have to access it through access-controlled API?) Wherever data is desired by many but held by a few, a pirate crew inevitably emerges.

I think this also might be an interest to you https://the-eye.eu/public/AI/pile_preliminary_components/

Not really

Re: GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think of the value proposition of GPT-X as "what would you do with a team of hundreds of people who can solve arbitrary problems only by googling them?". And honestly, not a lot of productive applications come to mind. Damn, this could replace so many programmers, we're doomed!

*realizing GPT-3 was probably created by programmers who's job really is mostly googling for stackoverflow answers* #singularity

We were worried that the singularity was going to involve artificial intelligences that could make themselves smarter, and we were underwhelmed when it turned out to be neural networks that started to summarize Stack Overflow neural network tips, to try to optimize themselves, instead.

GPT-∞: still distinguishable from human advice, but it contains a quadrillion parameters and nobody knows how exactly it’s able to tune them.

Re: GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free

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post #66

In my experience, the output from GPT-3, DALL-E, et al is similar to what you get from googling the prompt and stitching together snippets from the top results. These transformers are trained on "what was visible to google", which provides the limitation on their utility. I think of the value proposition of GPT-X as "what would you do with a team of hundreds of people who can solve arbitrary problems only by googling…

I work in a niche sector of the insurance industry. Based on what it can already do, I can see it doing half my job with basically no learning curve for the user. Based on this alone, I could see it reducing headcount in the company and sector by 5%. This is massive when you consider the low margins in the industry and high costs of "skilled" staff.

Re: GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free

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post #152
post #66

In my experience, the output from GPT-3, DALL-E, et al is similar to what you get from googling the prompt and stitching together snippets from the top results. These transformers are trained on "what was visible to google", which provides the limitation on their utility. I think of the value proposition of GPT-X as "what would you do with a team of hundreds of people who can solve arbitrary problems only by googling…

GPT-3 is trained on text prediction, and there's been a lot of commentary about the generation aspect, but some of the applications that excite me most are not necessarily about the generation of text, instead, GPT-3 (and also other language models) create very useful vector representations of natural language as a side effect that can then be used for other tasks with much less data, or with too much extra data. Usi…

"More speculatively, being able to use natural language to supervise or give feedback to automated systems that have little to do with NLP seems very very useful."

I agree with this, and it isn't entirely speculative. One of the most useful applications I have seen that goes beyond googling is generating css using natural language. ie, "change the background to blue and put a star at the top of the page". There are heavily sample selected demos of this on twitter right now https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1282676454690451457...

This is definitely practical, though I wouldn't design my corporate website using this. could be useful if you need to make 10 new sites a day for something with seo or domains

Re: GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That fact that you made up that number is extremely funny in this context.

I don't think so - I was aware that it was a made-up number, and highlighted the fact that it was. It's the lack of awareness of what is backed up by data that is the problem I think. Or am I missing your point?

Right, it's definitely goof that you cited it being fake, but I think the parent was pointing out the subtle (and likely unintentional) irony of discussing fake news while providing _fake_ numbers to support your opinion.

Re: GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free

#209
post #66

In my experience, the output from GPT-3, DALL-E, et al is similar to what you get from googling the prompt and stitching together snippets from the top results. These transformers are trained on "what was visible to google", which provides the limitation on their utility. I think of the value proposition of GPT-X as "what would you do with a team of hundreds of people who can solve arbitrary problems only by googling…

I don't necessarily see the "team of automated googlers" as a fundamental or damning problem with GPT-like approaches. First I think people may have a lot fewer truly original ideas then they are willing to admit. Original thought is sought after and celebrated in arts as a rare commodity. But unlike in arts, where there are almost not constraints, when it comes to science or engineering almost every incremental step…

"team of automated googlers" where google is baked-in. Google results, and content behind it, changes. Meaning, GPT would have to be updated as well. Could be a cool google feature, a service.

Re: GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free

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I love the initiative, but I'm starting to get scared of what a post-GPT-3 world will look like. We are already struggling to distinguish fake news from real ones, automated customer request replies from genuine replies, etc. How will I know that I have a conversation with a real human in the future? On the other side, the prospect of having an oracle that answers all trivia, fixes spelling and grammar, and allows hu…

I know! One day it's going to get so bad people are going to have to deploy critical thinking instead of accepting what they read at face value and suffer the indignity of having to think for themselves.

Maybe that'll also be the Year of the Linux desktop I keep hearing so much about.
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