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Some remarks on Large Language Models

Yoav Goldberg, January 2023

Audience: I assume you heard of chatGPT, maybe played with it a little, and was imressed by it (or tried very hard not to be). And that you also heard that it is "a large language model". And maybe that it "solved natural language understanding". Here is a short personal perspective of my thoughts of this (and similar) models, and where we stand with respect to language understanding.

Intro

Around 2014-2017, right within the rise of neural-network based methods for NLP, I was giving a semi-academic-semi-popsci lecture, revolving around the story that achieving perfect language modeling is equivalent to being as intelligent as a human. Somewhere around the same time I was also asked in an academic panel "what would you do if you were given infinite compute and no need to worry about labour costs" to which I cockily responded "I would train a really huge language model, just to show that it doesn't solve everything!". We

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How to Push to Someone Else's Pull Request

Let's say contributor has submitted a pull request to your (author) project (repo). They have made changes on their branch feature and have proposed to merge this into origin/master, where

origin -> https://github.com/author/repo.git

Now say you would like to make commits to their PR and push those changes. First, add their fork as a remote called

raunakdoesdev

# Run this after a fresh flashing of JetPack 3.0 on a Jetson TX1
# NEED TO BE LOGGED INTO TO nvidia USER ACCOUNT WITH PASSWORD OF: nvidia

sudo c_rehash /etc/ssl/certs
sudo dhclient wlan0

############################# Install Karl's Repository #############################
sudo apt-get --assume-yes install git
git clone https://github.com/karlzipser/kzpy3.2.git kzpy3