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Comment on Show HN: Explainpaper – Explain jargon in academic papers with GPT-3

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This is genuinely neat. I may need to start playing with GPT. I am clearly missing on a lot of fun.

Original fragment:

<<The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks that include an encoder and a decoder. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train. Our model achieves 28.4 BLEU on the WMT 2014 English-to-German translation task, improving over the existing best results, including ensembles, by over 2 BLEU. On the WMT 2014 English-to-French translation task, our model establishes a new single-model state-of-the-art BLEU score of 41.8 after training for 3.5 days on eight GPUs, a small fraction of the training costs of the best models from the literature. We show that the Transformer generalizes well to other tasks by applying it successfully to English constituency parsing both with large and limited training data.

> summary:

The text is explaining the Transformer, a new type of AI language model. The Transformer is based solely on attention mechanisms, and is superior to existing models in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring less time to train.

<< input: Does it say why it is superior?

> response:

Yes, the paper says that the Transformer model is superior because it is more parallelizable and requires less time to train.

Yes, the paper says that the Transformer model is superior because it is more parallelizable and requires less time to train.

"Superior because it is X" is not the same as "superior while also being X". GPT-3 has managed to say both of those things within your short session, only the latter actually being correct.

You are right. I got so excited I missed it. I will play with it a little more to see if I can get it to make similar statements. It does not change that it is really impressive, but you absolutely have a point.

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