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starstruckmon t1_j3x4bsr wrote

How is Google behind OpenAI? Chinchilla has simmilar performance as GPT3 yet is much cheaper to run since it has less than half the parameters.

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visarga t1_j41avq0 wrote

Many smaller models give good results on classification and extractive tasks. But when they need to get creative they don't sound so great. I don't know if Chinchilla is as creative as the latest from OpenAI, but my gut feeling says it isn't.

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starstruckmon t1_j41dgsk wrote

There's no way for us to tell for certain, but since Google has used it for creativity oriented projects/papers like Dramatron, I don't think so. I feel the researchers would have said something instead of leading the whole world intentionally astray as everyone is now following Chinchilla's scaling laws.

Chinchilla isn't just a smaller model. It's adequately trained unlike GPT3 which is severely undertrained, so simmilar, if not exceeding ( as officially claimed ), capabilities isn't unexpected.

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