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Re:Are language models deprived of electric sleep? by trention on Saturday July 23, 2022 @07:28PM (#32208609)
>The fraction of samples being verbatim reurgitations is low

Copilot spitting out a function out of its training data with changed variable names to match those in your file(s) - and no one is actually testing what proportions of results those are - is still regurgitation.

Re:Are language models deprived of electric sleep? by the8472 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @11:05AM (#32251343)
> and no one is actually testing what proportions of results those are

The idea that models could possibly overfit the training data is hardly a new idea. It's standard practice to test for that. Check section 7 of the PaLM paper for example. https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02311

Re:Are language models deprived of electric sleep? by benreesman on Saturday July 23, 2022 @08:15PM (#32208928)
Copilot is weird.

The N in the NLP training set and arch implies a fuzzy match.

Why anyone would rather start with a plausible but broken-in-a-subtle way buffer rather than a blank one is beyond me.