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by sfriedr 1184 days ago
> OpenAI's chosen not to release any real details about GPT-4

Actually, they have release some details about it, in this 99-page technical report https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774 (which is actually two papers stitches together, once you read it; oddly enough using different fonts).

But I'm not sure if this content qualifies as "real details".

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The intro to that paper specifically says:

> Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4, this report contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar. We are committed to independent auditing of our technologies, and shared some initial steps and ideas in this area in the system card accompanying this release. We plan to make further technical details available to additional third parties who can advise us on how to weigh the competitive and safety considerations above against the scientific value of further transparency.

In other words, "Stable Diffusion wasn't supposed to happen, so we're making all our methodology trade secret[0], if you want to Do Science then agree to this massive NDA and have enough skin in the game for us to cut you."

[0] Presumably at some point OpenAI will have to 'relent' to independent discovery by patenting AI architectures and refusing to license them