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Re:Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug by og_kalu on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @05:09PM (#35546970)
Not too shocking for me after this paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09066

You can teach GPT-3 arithmetic - https://imgur.com/a/w3DAYOi

100% accuracy up to about 13 digit addition and >90 after that.

What else can you teach GPT without changing weights ?

Re:Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug by mirashii on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @05:33PM (#35547287)
> 100% accuracy up to about 13 digit addition

The graphs you just posted do not support that, they'd support at most 100% accuracy up to 4 digits.

Re:Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug by og_kalu on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @05:48PM (#35547477)
It's 100 at 13 and extremely close to it prior to that. Maybe basically 100 is better.
Re:Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug by sharemywin on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:32PM (#35547962)
it's GPT so 13=4
Re:Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug by cs702 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:25PM (#35549132)
I meant shocking in the sense that it makes me gape in awe, but as I wrote, it's also, simultaneously, completely unsurprising given all the new emergent capabilities we keep discovering. We're in agreement :-)
Re:Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug by og_kalu on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:31PM (#35550127)
Oh. yes well that's fair
Re:Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug by gopalv on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:34PM (#35550596)
> and >90 after that

This is such a circular thing, that I feel like it is amazing to see it.

The reason LLMs use a NN is because they're trying to encode a probability function for generating the passage.

And now, you are encoding another n-gram follower exercise (i.e 1+1 = 2) on top of it :)

Re:Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug by Paul-Craft on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:27AM (#35553373)
Yeah... and I'm kind of suspicious of the whole "without changing the weights" deal, because adding working context to the model, like telling it the algorithm for adding numbers really sounds like there's some model state that's getting mutated, even if it's not stored in a file called weights.dat or whatev.