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> As AI ethics expert Timnit Gebru and her collaborators put it, these systems are “stochastic parrots” that do a decent job of mimicry but utterly lack the dep
by schleck8 5y ago
> As AI ethics expert Timnit Gebru and her collaborators put it, these systems are “stochastic parrots” that do a decent job of mimicry but utterly lack the depth of understanding that general artificial intelligence will require
gpt 3 is the first publicly available iteration of large scale text transformers and it's decent for that. it doesn't have to be perfect
- tikhonj 5y agoIt doesn't have to be perfect, sure, but it would have to be a lot better to be "a new foundation for AI"—exactly what the article (and presumably this discussion) is about.
- wongarsu 5y agoSurely you meant GPT2? We can argue about the definition of "large scale", but calling GPT3 "publicly available" is a stretch at best.