[jstx1]

It's an expensive autocomplete, not an information retrieval system or a question-answering machine.

[tiborsaas]

What's the difference? Answering a question can be considered "autocomplete".

[RyEgswuCsn]

Parent surely meant spellcheck autocompletion.

[tiborsaas]

I doubt it, that's clearly exceeded by these language models. Calling it just an autocomplete - because it can mean a lot of things people are familiar with - is a way to downplay their significance.

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

Not true. Take a look at the paper and benchmarks. The point of the thing is that it does well on a number of NLP tasks by being an expensive autocomplete. As people demonstrate in this thread, it still has significant flaws.