Comment by 1024core

4 years ago

See the "joke explaining" examples on Page 36 of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02311 and tell me if it's just "passable garbled nonsense".

> 500 bn parameter model

That solution has a compressed representation of half the internet.

NNs are "garabled nonesense" insofar as they try to generalise; insofar as they are search engines, they provide apparent sense by just repeating something in their database (= weights).

Google, likewise, returns joke explanations.

  • "The Internet" is much, much bigger than 500bn floats. The latest snapshot of archive.org has 505 billion web pages itself.

That's astonishing.

  • Oo this reminds me. One of my favourite sci-fi novels is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

    In it, it depicts the growth of a nascent AI from its attempts at understanding humor. The AI befriends a technician and gets the human to rate its own crafted jokes.

    Eventually the AI gets really good at telling jokes, and becomes sentient as a result.

    It was a very fun take on AI gaining sentience, highly recommended!