julianjm

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   by julianjm 6y ago

   I think all researchers and science communicators have a duty to present science in a way which educates and edifies, and doesn't mislead. It's not just that they're successful, but that their publicity gives them a prominent
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   by julianjm 6y ago

   For a specific example of how I think their framing is unhelpful: in the LAMBADA evaluation (sec. 3.1), they suggest that one-shot performance is low "perhaps...because all models still require several examples to recognize the pattern
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   by julianjm 6y ago

   I am not a fan of this trend of "Language Models Are X" in recent work particularly out of OpenAI. I think it's a rhetorical sleight of hand which hurts the discourse. Like, the exact same paper could have instead been titled