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YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by marshray »

ginjas wrote: post #517
marshray wrote: post #454

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The Canadian truck protesters were allowed to shut down the center of the city, blast their horns 24 hours a day, and shut down a major international trade route. They were permitted to do this for weeks before the citizens got sick of it and demanded action from their government. They gave protest a bad name. Your conclusion that "There is no right to protest anywhere" is simply ridiculous.

>Your conclusion that "There is no right to protest anywhere" is simply ridiculous. BLM rioters did this, and more. Violence + Property damage + Corporate Backing + gov backing. They didn't had their donation money seized,and almost no resistance to establish order.

Yes, the BLM protests are more examples of the right to protest being alive and well.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by justsomehnguy »

marshray wrote: post #455
colordrops wrote: post #367

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Julian Assange anyone? Gary Webb? Michael Hastings? And you've got Abby Martin and Chris Hedges who've had much of their content removed by YouTube. Chris Hedges is even a Pulitzer prize winner.

You've named three people, and some YouTube videos. On the other side, the FSB has deported 1.3 million innocent Ukrainian civilians to concentration camps. (number is from official Russian sources)

> to concentration camps

> number is from official Russian sources)

Surly you can give a kind stranger a link to these official sources?

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by tikwidd »

dandiep wrote: post #556
lumost wrote: post #456

To add a voice of skepticism. The recent rush to open source these models may be indicative that the tens of millions that’s spent training these things has relatively poor roi. There may be a hope that someone else figures out how to make these commercially useful.

There are tons of commercial uses for these models. I've been experimenting with an app targeted toward language learners [1]. We use large language models to: - Generate vocabulary - e.g. for biking: handlebars, pedals, shifters, etc - Generate translation exercises for given topic a learner wants to learn about - e.g. I raised the seat on my bike - Generate questions for the user - e.g. What are the different types…

How does the vocabulary generation work?

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by blippage »

jquery wrote: post #506
BonoboIO wrote: post #491

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Content made for machines. Probably a billion dollar industry.

Made by machines, for machines. It’s poetic.

There's a line in one of Douglas Adams' books where he says something along the lines that things like VCRs were invented to watch TV programs so that you don't have to.

Who would have thought that one man's joke would become a reality?

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by Moldoteck »

narrator wrote: post #508

I love Yandex. They are the best search engine by far for politically controversial topics. They also release a language model to benefit everyone even if it says politically incorrect stuff. They also name their projects "cocaine" probably to perhaps to prevent western competitors from using them. You look at OpenAI and how they don't release their models mainly because they fear "bad people" will use them for "bad…

They literally have blocklist of sites that kremlin doesnt like and it acts somehow similar to yandex news in this part. The difference here is more that google filters stuff for usa and yandex for russia

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by MivLives »

tobr wrote: post #493
MivLives wrote: post #482

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We're using these at where I work (large retail site) to help make filler text on generated articles. Think the summary blurb no one reads at the top. As for why we're writing these articles (we have a paid team that writes them too), the answer is SEO. This is probably the only thing I've seen done with a text model in production usage. I'm not 100% sure what model they're using.

Sorry but every part of that sounds so terrible.

Yeah I'm not a huge fan of it. I'll never forget the look in our UX person's eyes when she realized that our team doesn't exist to make customer's experience better (there's a ton of other teams for that) but to make Googlebot's experience better. Right now we're in the process of getting publishers you've heard of to write blurbs for best lists, but we're supplying the products so it's not really a best list.

I can't say I'm a big fan but my teams is great and I don't have time to look for a job right now.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by MivLives »

varispeed wrote: post #514
MivLives wrote: post #482

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We're using these at where I work (large retail site) to help make filler text on generated articles. Think the summary blurb no one reads at the top. As for why we're writing these articles (we have a paid team that writes them too), the answer is SEO. This is probably the only thing I've seen done with a text model in production usage. I'm not 100% sure what model they're using.

I hate this so much. These tools are getting better, so often you realise only half way through that you are reading AI text. Then you have to flush your brain and take a mental note, to never visit that site again.

I'm not a big fan either. At least the pages are just like:

- useless ai generated intro text

- ten products that actually are the best reviewed per category by users

- brief ai blurb on product

- 3 actual user reviews of the product

So even with the ai text there's still some benefit to the page.

Re: YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters

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Post by CRConrad »

dav_Oz wrote: post #150
alexb_ wrote: post #13

I have to wonder if 10 years down the line, everyone will be able to run models like this on their own computers. Have to wonder what the knock-on effects of that will be, especially if the models improve drastically. With so much of our social lives being moved online, if we have the easy ability to create fake lives of fake people one has to wonder what's real and what isn't. Maybe the dead internet theory will rea…

The bots/machine vs human reminds me of that famous experiment from the 30s in which Winthrop Kellogg[0], a comparative psychologist, and his wife decided to raise their human baby (Donald) simultaneously with a chimpanzee baby (Gua) in an effort to "humanize the ape". It was set out to last 5 years but was relatively quickly abrupted after only 9 months. The explicit reason wasn't stated only that it successfully pr…

I sincerely regret that I had only one upvote to give you. This shit is so insidious that IMO everyone should just simply stop doing it until they've thought it through a lot more.

> ...humans condition themselves in a far more accelerated way to behave like bots than bots are potentially able to do.

Than bots can condition themselves to behave like humans, I presume. They can already behave exactly like bots. :-)

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