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Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by scottlocklin on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:40PM (#23969717)
>to think of this as only an incremental improvement over markov chains is underselling the advance.

Erm, citations needed. It's a giant, inefficient and shitty KNN model, which is capable of mimicking markov chains. Wonderful marketing achievement and not much else.

Re:Are we in an AI Overhang? by Jach on Monday July 27, 2020 @07:19PM (#23970524)
https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3 (Edit: in case it's not clear, I suspect if you give an honest perusal of that page, and the pages it links, and the pages they link, you'll come away with a different opinion.)