Researcher Describes 2022 Pivot to Language Models
Dimitris Papailiopoulos recounts pivoting his group after early exposure to davinci.
Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers and professor on leave from UW-Madison, posted that shortly before starting the Looped TFs paper in fall 2022 he grew interested in AGI after using davinci on the OpenAI playground. He told his group to drop ongoing work and study language models instead, which he found remarkable and hard to grasp. The post is presented as an evergreen quote from the researcher.
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Dimitris Papailiopoulos@DimitrisPapailEvergreen. Shortly before we started the Looped TFs paper in fall 2022, I was getting AGI pilled by davinci on the openai playground. I then told my group we were dropping whatever we were doing to try and understand language models. They seemed like something out of this…
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JL Jason Lee@jasondeanleeLooped transformers @DimitrisPapail
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