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by williamtrask 1596 days ago
It really isn’t. You see a lot of things when reading 500 billion tokens
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chaxor 1595 days ago
Yeah, I'm *totally* unimpressed.

I, for one, learn all my math without ever seeing any math or logic examples at all.

"Teacher, what is this '34+12' stuff - I've already developed a complete grand unification theory on my own - I don't need examples of what you call 'addition'" - apparently everyone unimpressed by nlp today

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drdeca 1596 days ago
they didn't mean that it was astounding that something of the form "xxx1 + xxxx3 = xxxx4" was in the training set, but that it managed to "learn the pattern".
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