Re:NanoGPT
by themulticaster on Thursday January 12, 2023 @01:23PM
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> (My apologies to non-native speakers of English; if someone did that to me in German I'd have no clue what was meant).
At least for me it's perfectly understandable (except the "Mrs" part). This reminds of those "did you know you can flip characters randomly and our brain can still understand the text" copypastas that can be found everywhere. I think it's probably quite similar for word order: As long as your sentence structure is not extremely complicated, you can probably get away with changing it any way you like. Just like nobody has issues understanding Yoda in Star Wars.
Although I think there are some limits to changing word order - I can imagine complicated legal documents might get impossible to decipher if you start randomizing word order.
A good example that is not, word randomised order and kombination with Mrs Spelling and fonetic spel-ing prevent ye knot that which I wrote you to komprehend.
(My apologies to non-native speakers of English; if someone did that to me in German I'd have no clue what was meant).
A better point is that GPT-3's training set is more tokens than the number of times an average human synapse fires in a lifetime, squeezed into a network with about 3 orders of magnitude fewer parameters than the human brain has synapses.
It's wrong to model AI as anything like natural intelligence, but if someone insists, my go-to comparison (with an equivalent for image generators) is this: "Imagine someone made a rat immortal, then made it browse the web for 50,000 years. It's still a rat, despite being very well-trained."