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Saturday, 18th July 2020

Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API. Insightful commentary on GPT-3 (which is producing some ridiculously cool demos at the moment thanks to the invite-only OpenAI API) from Max Woolf.

# 7:29 pm / machine-learning, ai, max-woolf, gpt-3, openai, generative-ai, llms

When I was curating my generated tweets, I estimated 30-40% of the tweets were usable comedically, a massive improvement over the 5-10% usability from my GPT-2 tweet generation. However, a 30-40% success rate implies a 60-70% failure rate, which is patently unsuitable for a production application.

Max Woolf

# 7:33 pm / machine-learning, max-woolf, llms

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