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Re:DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla by redredrobot on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:02AM (#30988830)
It outperforms the Gopher model
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Re:DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla by ellisv on Monday April 11, 2022 @09:52PM (#30997658)
Yet oddly enough I don't think chinchillas are smaller than gophers
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Re:DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla by cshimmin on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:16AM (#30989037)
Yeah, similar "thematic" naming to MacOS versions. I don't know why the original one was called Gopher, though.
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Re:DeepMind’s New Language Model, Chinchilla by goodside on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:24PM (#30991043)
Because it retrieves facts from memory in a way that’s analogized to a gopher retrieving objects.
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