Re:Yann LeCun on GPT-3
by computerphage on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @11:31AM
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The iPhone didn't replace your flip phone, apple did. The iPhone didn't build itself.
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Yes except they were saying the iPhone replaced Nokia's engineers.
GPT-3 is not doing what the ML engineers were doing (building models), GPT-3 is the end goal. The company just decided to outsource the work to OpenAI and pay a monthly fee to them instead of salaries to their ML engineers.
"We have already found several use cases for it, one of which replaces 2 ML engineers." -> Clearly makes it sounds like GPT-3 can do the job their ML engineers were doing.
From a business perspective, this is an irrelevant distinction. The requirement was satisfied in a different way, i.e. the engineers satisfying the requirement were replaced by GPT-3, the tool which satisfies the requirement.
I think everyone understood that.
The thread is not about business perspective, it's about the hype around what GPT-3 is and is not able to do.
One thing GPT-3 is not able to do for example, is replacing 2 ML engineers to build a GPT-3 like model. But OpenAI can do that.