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Re:Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters by modeless on Monday April 04, 2022 @06:23PM (#30912767)
This may be the most impressive thing I've seen a language model do so far. That's incredible. The future is going to be very weird.
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Re:Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters by FeepingCreature on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @12:59AM (#30915443)
The future is going to be very short.

What this says to me is that there is no general-intelligence task that language models cannot scale to.

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Re:Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540B parameters by visarga on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:29AM (#30915587)
Apparently Data (from Star Trek) was less capable of understanding jokes.
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