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230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is There a Blank Slate in GPT-3?

The neural networks, the artificial neural networks are randomly initialized. That just means the weights in the network stopped generally at random. There are exceptions, but generally, the way in which it works is we just start with random numbers. And then gradually in the process of training, we tune these weights,. We tune these numbers, these parameters, such that the model gets better and better at the learning objective that it has.

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