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Act II · Scaling up

Closed modelOpenAI

GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

Give it a few examples in the prompt and it can do a new task without retraining.

175Bparameters, over 100× GPT-2

Why it matters

Prompt engineering was born, and OpenAI offered a model through an API for the first time, starting the commercialization of large models.

Costs and controversy

Expensive to train, sometimes confidently wrong, and not very good at following instructions.

Built on

GPT-2Scaling Laws

Led to

CopilotInstructGPT

Source: arxiv.org ↗

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