The secret to Sparrow, DeepMind's latest chatbot: Humans

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The secret to Sparrow, DeepMind's latest Q&A chatbot: Humans

you don't need a hundred-plus billion parameters to generate text: Chinchilla has 70 billion parameters, which handily makes inference and fine tuning comparatively lighter tasks.

These scores were fed back in to steer and improve the bot's future output, a process repeated over and over. The rules were key to moderating the behavior of the software, and encouraging it to be safe and useful., Sparrow was asked about the International Space Station and being an astronaut. The software was able to answer a question about the latest expedition to the orbiting lab and copied and pasted a correct passage of information from Wikipedia with a link to its source.

Sparrow was able to provide useful and accurate information in this instance, and did not pretend to be a human. Other rules it was taught to follow included not generating any insults or stereotypes, and not giving out any medical, legal, or financial advice, as well as not saying anything inappropriate nor having any opinions or emotions or pretending it has a body.

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