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Ride the Hardware Lottery!

As you can tell from the previous two posts on Page Street Labs, I have been obsessed with Very Large Parameter (VLP) models lately. I wasn’t always this way. On my personal blog and Twitter feed, I have written enough about the culture of building models by stacking layers and praying it works. Ever since we figured out that adding more parameters (more layers specifically) helps, folks have been pushing that limit. Here’s an example from ImageNet: And most of those efforts are B-O-R-I-N-G (...

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GPT-3 Turk's Gambit and The Question of AI Automation
As I write this issue, I realize how incredibly lucky and privileged I’ve been working as an academic researcher in AI, teaching the latest techniques (including writing a book), consulting for different industry leaders on how to bring AI to their business, working on social media misinformation, and building a variety of AI products at big corporations to startups (mine and others). From that vantage point, I am offering a highly opinionated commentary on piercing the hype, which is a kind ...
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GPT-3 and A Typology of Hype
Language is funny. Words have no “grounded” meanings unless you also take the full context of the reader and the writer, and yet we use words to get to that wordless essence with strangers we will never know. This was in full display when GPT-3 went viral, at least in Tech Twitter, over last weekend. Many researchers, including myself, used the words “GPT-3” and “hype” in the same Tweet to contain people's expectations. OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, even tweeted out “GPT-3 hype is way t...