[FRIAM] God is not a Good Theory

[Steve Smith]

I asked Alexa "what is GPT3?",

She quoted from the beginning of the Wikipedia article:

    /*Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3*////(//*GPT-3*//;
    stylized////*GPT·3*//) is an////autoregressive
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoregressive_model>////language
    model <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_model>////that
    uses////deep learning
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning>////to produce
    human-like text./

    /The architecture is a standard////transformer network
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_(machine_learning_model)>////(with
    a few engineering tweaks) with the unprecedented size of
    2048-token-long context and 175 billion parameters (requiring 800 GB
    of storage). The training method is "generative pretraining",
    meaning that it is trained to predict what the next token is.///

That wasn't very inspired, yet was probably as useful as anything (to 
defer to a presumed authority)...  what I can't guess yet is how it 
decided to snip the quote one sentence short of the first full 
paragraph?  Maybe Wikipedia has some markup for that...

Alexa, when mashed up with it's myriad "authoritative sources" is a very 
effective *hybrid* intelligent assistant...  I'm impressed with how 
*balanced* the GPT-3 answers can be, even if they can also be a little 
milquetoasty as George Duncan's example exemplifies.


On 9/14/22 2:49 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
> I have asked GPT-3 at the OpenAI playground about it:
>
> Q: What is God?
> GPT-3: There is no one answer to this question since there are so many 
> different religious beliefs around the world. From a scientific 
> standpoint, however, we can say that God is an unseen force or concept 
> that governs or oversees everything in the universe.
>
> Q: Does God exist?
> GPT-3: There is no conclusive evidence either way on whether or not 
> God exists. Many people believe in a higher power, while others don't. 
> There is no right or wrong answer to this question, it is a matter of 
> personal belief.
>
> Q: Is there a life after death?
> GPT-3: There is no one answer to this question since it is a matter of 
> religious belief. Some people believe in reincarnation, while others 
> believe in an afterlife in which we are reunited with our loved ones. 
> Ultimately, it is up to each individual to decide what they believe.
>
>
> It is not bad for a language model, isn't it? On the other hand it 
> costs millions of Dollars to build it and consumes Terabyte of data. 
> Try it yourself at
> https://beta.openai.com/playground
>
> -J.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com>
> Date: 9/14/22 9:11 PM (GMT+01:00)
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> Subject: [FRIAM] God is not a Good Theory
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