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GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town

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Re: GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town

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Neat to see more models getting closer, thought it appears only one so far has exceeded GPT-3's 175B parameters.

That said, what I'm really curious is how those other models stack up against GPT-3 in terms of performance -- does anyone know of any comparisons?

Re: GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town

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Can anyone tell me what the value of GPT-3 actually is other than generating meaningless prose? What would a business use it for

Have you heard of GitHub copilot ? It’s based on GPT3 and I can tell you one thing: it does not generate meaningless prose (90% of the time)

Re: GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town

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Can anyone tell me what the value of GPT-3 actually is other than generating meaningless prose? What would a business use it for

Hey for a long time i was also very sceptical. However i can refer you to this paper to a really cool applciaiton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP-dXK9JEhY. They baseically use clever GPT-3 prompting to create a dataset, you then train another model on. Besides, you can prompt these models to get (depending on the usecase) really good few shot performance. And finally, github copilot is another pretty neat application.

Re: GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town

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post #4

Can anyone tell me what the value of GPT-3 actually is other than generating meaningless prose? What would a business use it for

Have you heard of GitHub copilot ? It’s based on GPT3 and I can tell you one thing: it does not generate meaningless prose (90% of the time)

How many % of the time does it produce code that compiles?

Re: GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town

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Can anyone tell me what the value of GPT-3 actually is other than generating meaningless prose? What would a business use it for

GPT-3 is fairly effective at summarization, so that's one potential business use case:

https://sdtimes.com/monitor/using-gpt-3-for-root-cause-incid...

Re: GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town

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People were blaming cryptocurrencies miners for the prices of GPUs, when in fact it was the AI researchers who bought all the GPUs. :D

I wonder what if somebody designs an electronic currency rewarded as payment for general GPU computations instead of just computing hashes? You pay some $, to train your model and the miner gets some coins.

Every one is happy, electricity is not wasted and the GPUs gets used for a reasonable purpose.

Re: GPT-3 is no longer the only game in town

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Can anyone tell me what the value of GPT-3 actually is other than generating meaningless prose? What would a business use it for

I hope that one day it will allow me to write down my thoughts in bullet-list form, and it will then produce beautiful prose from it.

Of course this will be another blow for journalists, who rely on this skill for their income.

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