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by de6u99er 1219 days ago
GPT-3 has been publicly covered in scientific publications. Same as GPT-2, and GPT. Those are all pre-trained models, where GPT is the abbreviation of Generative Pretrained Transformer. Transformers have been invented in 2017 at Google Brain [1].

-> https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/the-journey-of-open-ai-...

GPT-4 is around the corner, and it's allegedly 100x more powerful than it'd predecessor.

-> https://medium.com/geekculture/gpt-4-100x-more-powerful-than...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

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That source about GPT-4 is nonsense. It claims GPT-4 will have trillions of parameter, and at the same time links to another page which says that it won't be much bigger than GPT-3:

https://www.datacamp.com/blog/what-we-know-gpt4

That "100x" figure is extremely poorly sourced. I don't believe that at all.
And yet the intimidating pictures of a small and large circle keep getting posted everywhere.
You're right. Apologies for that.