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Why Isn’t GPT-3 A Bigger Story? : slatestarcodex

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Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it. ... of course now I'm wondering whether this text was generated by GPT-3 ... Either GPT-3 is way more impressive than the samples I've seen, or you're giving it too much credit; it's great at writing that sounds good, but it's not consistently coherent, much less true (there's a neat example in this blog post https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pv7Qpu8WSge8NRbpB/larger-language-models-may-disappoint-you-or-an-eternally where GPT-3 jumps from thinking it's writing a wikipedia article to thinking it's writing a harry potter…

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