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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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Scaling Language Models Past Certain Sizes Can Improve Performance

GPT-3 was unveiled in 2020, which relates to what we talked about earlier with the Bitter lesson. Just doing that and training these models on more data seems to be sufficient to unlock new capacities. You get these non-linear transition phases as you scale them up. And so anthropic was interested in whether there are also some inverse scaling phenomena where scaling the model instead of just improving the performance might also lead to either degradation of performance or lead to unwanted behavior. But I don't think we see any evidence of that.

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