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by golol 1188 days ago
Well all the information it learns at runtime is encoded in the context window. I don't feel like {tokens}^ctxWindow is unmeasurably complex. I think one should see a transformer as a stochastic computer operating on its memory. If you modelled a computer as a stochastic process, would you taje the state space to consist of the most recent instruction, or instead the whole memory of the computer?
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GPT-4 has a token window of 32K tokens. I don't think GPT-4's vocabulary size has been released but GPT-3 is 175K. I guess yes, the complexity is technically measurable but it does seem pretty large!