[YeGoblynQueenne]

Yes, I think many people would say that GPT-2 is not an important contribution to science, and that it rather is the latest focus of industry and lay press hype for machine learning and neural networks. The latest trend, if you will.

Personally, I struggle to see what new thing we learned from GPT-2. Did we learn something about the physical world? About how human minds work? About how language works? It's a language model after all. All we learned is that throwing a large dataset to a hard problem can produce results that are difficult to evaluate.

"Science" means "knowledge". If we haven't learned anything new from GPT-2 then it hasn't contributed to science. It's impressive, like a jetliner is impressive, or an aircraft carrier is impressive, but it's not increasing our body of knowledge about the world and ourselves.