[The Next Web] Meta’s free GPT-3 replica exposes the business benefits of AI transparency

The notoriously secretive Meta has set a milestone for transparency. The company this week offered the entire research community access to a fully-trained large language model (LLM). Named the Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT), the system mirrors the performance and size of OpenAI’s vaunted GPT-3 model. This mimicry is deliberate. While GPT-3 has a stunning ability to produce human-like text, it also has a powerful capacity for biases, bigotry, and disinformation. OPT’s creators said their system can reduce these risks: Our aim in developing this suite of OPT models is to enable reproducible and responsible research at scale, and to bring…

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