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GPT-3, Beyond the Hype

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Modestly sophisticated autocomplete engine or the first big step towards Artificial General Intelligence? Or both? GPT-3, made by San Francisco-based AI lab OpenAI, generated considerable buzz when it was announced in Summer 2020. Let's go beyond the hype and have a closer look. That's what this Deep Dive will offer.

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How GPT3 Works - Visualizations and Animations
jalammar.github.io
machine learning
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OpenAI’s latest breakthrough is astonishingly powerful, but still fighting its flaws
The Verge
artificial intelligence, machine learning
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GPT-3 and A Typology of Hype
pagestlabs.substack.com
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OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
MIT Technology Review
artificial intelligence, digital life, machine learning, future, language
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Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test
lacker.io
artificial intelligence, machine learning, language
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GPT-3 Language Model: A Technical Overview
lambdalabs.com
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Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API
minimaxir.com
artificial intelligence, openai, gpt-3
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Philosophers On GPT-3
Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg
philosophy
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How Biased is GPT-3?
medium.com
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To start off, let's establish what GPT-3 actually is and how it works.

A good commonsense explainer by The Verge before we get more technical.

Hello again. Glad to see you made it all the way through this Deep Dive. We hope you gained better understanding of what GPT-3 can do and can't do.


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To wrap this up: If you're curious about implementations of GPT-3, you'll find a compilation of experiments and applications here.

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