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Re:GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about by dllthomas on Saturday August 22, 2020 @04:48PM (#24247150)
Right. If I went to a human speaker, who presumably possesses "actual understanding", and I said "I have some prompts for you. Please try to continue where they left off" and then provide them a question, it wouldn't be strange that they don't answer it. Do we ever answer a question right after we've asked it? Sure. Do we always?

I wonder if you can force "an attempt" at answering a question (to flagrantly anthropomorphize) by following the question with something like "The answer is ..."

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Re:GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about by killerstorm on Saturday August 22, 2020 @07:16PM (#24248074)
Yes, if you want answers, you need to frame it as a Q&A session: https://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.h...
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Re:GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about by evrydayhustling on Saturday August 22, 2020 @05:01PM (#24247226)
Yeah, the suffix you suggest is an example of what you’ll see folks calling “prompt design”. It’s becoming an important theme in NLP literature, partly as a forensics tool to find out what kinds of knowledge models encode, and partly as a path to getting a single expensive training regime to assist a variety of tasks.
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