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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Computer Science › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

   Discernment and Social Learning as a Companion Training Layer

   Ouyang, Wu, Jiang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

   The authors fine-tuned GPT-3 with human demonstrations and feedback to make InstructGPT models, which they report follow user intent better, with gains in truthfulness and less toxic output.

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   1. UncheckedIn human evaluations on the authors' prompts, a 1.3B-parameter InstructGPT model's outputs were preferred to those of the 175B-parameter GPT-3.“In human evaluations on our prompt distribution, outputs from the 1.3B parameter InstructGPT model are preferred to outputs from the 175B GPT-3, despite having 100x fewer parameters.”
   2. UncheckedInstructGPT models were more truthful and less toxic than GPT-3, with only minimal performance losses on public NLP datasets.“Moreover, InstructGPT models show improvements in truthfulness and reductions in toxic output generation while having minimal performance regressions on public NLP datasets.”

2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   A Brief Overview of ChatGPT: The History, Status Quo and Potential Future Development

   Wu, He, Liu et al. · IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica · 2023

   A brief overview of ChatGPT's history, current status and possible future, covering its core techniques, pros and cons, risks such as academic integrity, and open problems.

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   1. UncheckedFrom limited open resources, the authors identify ChatGPT's core techniques as large language models, in-context learning and reinforcement learning from human feedback.“Specifically, from the limited open-accessed resources, we conclude the core techniques of ChatGPT, mainly including large-scale language models, in-context learning, reinforcement learning from human feedback and the key technical steps for developing Chat-GPT.”