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Ask HN: How can GPT-3 help humanity fight Covid-19?

3 pointsby giorgoseraalmost 5 years ago
After watching all those amazing videos of GPT-3 I couldn't stop wondering if it can help in any way with covid-19!

5 comments

rvzalmost 5 years ago
&gt; After watching all those amazing videos of GPT-3<p>Those &#x27;amazing&#x27; GPT-3 videos only gloss over the good side of what GPT-3 can do given an input. They&#x27;ll never tell you the number of times they cherry picked and edited the output or the mistakes it makes nor can GPT-3 itself reason of why it has generated that output or chosen those words in the sentences it generates.<p>If a black box neural network like GPT-3 still can&#x27;t explain itself, then it cannot possibly safely help &quot;humanity fight COVID-19&quot; or any disease if you show the generated results to a medical professional.<p>So beware the hype brigade.
sp332almost 5 years ago
GPT-3 is just a language model. You have to give it some information to work with. Maybe it could convert statistics or study results into layman&#x27;s terms?
minimaxiralmost 5 years ago
It was trained on data prior to October 2019, so it <i>can&#x27;t</i> help with COVID-19.
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ubermanalmost 5 years ago
Help as in keep people entertained, or help as in solve some medical research question?
jeffreygoestoalmost 5 years ago
It can&#x27;t. Get a life.