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May 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Good to know what the AI thinks of me.
GPT-3 is the massive neural net that can adopt a persona from a few initial text prompts. It pre-trained on many billion words from the web. This includes proper names, like mine, as I just found out...
The ghost in Roko’s Basilisk machine.
Having spent a fair bit of time with @SamHarrisOrg, from philosophy to atheism to AI, I must say, they did a good job here.
GPT-3 cost ~$15 million to train with an 8-yr common crawl of the Internet (60%), Reddit-sourced text (22%), a corpus of books (15%) and Wikipedia (3%).