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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by sillysaurusx on Monday July 05, 2021 @04:55PM (#27741730)
“It’s a stochastic” doesn’t flow, though I guess I could use "stochastic random walk."

What properties does a gpt-3 model have that a Markov chain doesn’t? (Other than effectiveness.)

Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by toxik on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @05:01AM (#27745762)
Willfully misunderstanding your interlocutor seems ungracious, you apparently know stochastic is an adjective, so why did you try to use it as a noun?

GPT-3 is conditioned on the entire input sequence as well as its own output, which is strictly NON-MARKOVIAN. In fact, the point in saying something is Markovian is exactly that: the state transition probability only depends on the current state.

Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by immibis on Friday July 09, 2021 @03:15PM (#27787422)
But the current state could include all of the last N output tokens.
Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by exdsq on Monday July 05, 2021 @06:43PM (#27742523)
ANNs aren't Markov chains
Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by sillysaurusx on Monday July 05, 2021 @07:46PM (#27742893)
Well, yes. And apples aren't oranges, but they share a lot of similar traits.

"Given a prompt, provide a completion" is what a Markov chain does. GPT-3 is exactly the same, in the sense that apples and oranges both satisfy your hunger.

Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by tomrod on Monday July 05, 2021 @08:47PM (#27743242)
Is calculator.exe the equivalent to TI-84?
Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by sillysaurusx on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:22AM (#27744496)
I would say that a TI-84 is a glorified calculator.exe. The TI-84 is usually more effective, but they’re both calculators.