Large language models

Posted on Jun 14, 2022

I really don’t get all that hype around large language models. I can understand their uses in NLP (and their superb transfer learning powers), but people are treating them like the end-goal of AI. I might be biased, but they don’t look that smart to me – I’ve tried this one here: https://6b.eleuther.ai/. You get different results based on what parameters you use, but:

Model with top-p = 1.0, temperature = 0 (i.e. choose best – I guess that’s what it means – you get really bizarre results with the default website parameters)

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