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Hyperbole.
by patrickmcnamara 6mo ago
Hyperbole.
- jdiff 6mo agoIt's really not. It was a fun toy but had very little utility. It could generate plausible looking text that collapsed immediately upon any amount of inspection or even just attention. Code generation wasn't even a twinkle in Altman's eye scanning orbs at that point.
- tomalbrc 6mo agoTalking about revisionist…
- smoghat 6mo agoBut like Mythos, it was too dangerous to release. https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/openai-gpt2-text-generating-algorithm-ai-dangerous.html https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/openai-gpt2-text-genera...
- wongarsu 6mo agoAnd the "too dangerous to release" capability was writing somewhat plausible news articles based on a headline or handwritten beginning of an article. In the same style as what you had written Today we call that "advanced autocomplete", but at the time OpenAI managed to generate a lot of hype about how this would lead to an unstoppable flood of disinformation if they allowed the wrong people access to this dangerous tool. Even the original gpt3 was still behind waitlists with manual approval
- someguyiguess 6mo agoAnd as it turns out, they were correct.
- kube-system 6mo agoI think you misunderstand the comment you replied to. They are saying the above comment was a rhetorical exaggeration of GPT-2's capabilities as a commentary on how low quality Samsung TV software is. They don't actually think GPT-2 was very capable. It is a figure of speech, not a literal statement.
- valleyer 6mo agoIf so, I apologize.