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bgroat on March 16, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: New Capabilities for GPT-3: Edit and Insert

Would it be unreasonable to vaguely describe these huge neural nets as savants?

tsimionescu on March 16, 2022 [–]

Yes, because savants still have motivations, while these neural nets are just mathematical functions.

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