Fredrik Lyreskog
Google researchers say they’ve built a new, experimental AI writer nearly six times more powerful than GPT-3 – one of the world’s most formidable AI writing systems.
Essentially, the new tool is a one trillion parameter transformer system – or nearly six times bigger than the 175 billion parameters GPT-3 boasts.
Observes Tristan Greene, a writer for The Next Web: “The big idea here is that enough brute force will lead to better compute-use techniques — which will in turn make it possible to do more with less compute.
“But the current reality is that these systems don’t tend to justify their existence when compared to greener, more useful technologies.
“It’s hard to pitch an AI system that can only be operated by trillion-dollar tech companies willing to ignore the massive carbon footprint a system this big creates.”
The closest competitor to Google’s system — OpenAI’s GPT-3 — put many AI writing enthusiasts in a swoon this past summer after its initial release.
While flawed, the text writing system nevertheless stunned many users with its ability to quickly auto-generate articles, emails, legal writing, poetry and more from just a few lines of text input.
