Society & Culture
full-sized GPT-2 model, called 1558M. Before November 5, OpenAI (An Artifical Intelligance Startup) had only released three smaller, less coherent versions of the model. While GPT-2 was only trained to predict the next word in a text, it surprisingly learned basic competence in some tasks like translating between languages and answering questions. Very soon it was able to be used for fake news and hate speech but it took a different turn when it predicted the coronavirus pandemic. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app