I remember vividly reading one of his tweets last year, enthusiastically talking about how he’d started chatting with GPT-3 and it was impressing him with its intelligence.
Are you thinking of this tweet? I believe that was meant to be a joke. His actual position at the time appeared to be that GPT-3 is impressive but overhyped.
I don’t believe that was it. That was very obviously sarcastic, and it was in July which is a month after the period I am thinking of (plus no chatbot connection), which is an eternity—by late July, as people got into the API and saw it for themselves, more people than just me had been banging the drums about GPT-3 being important, and there was even some genuine GPT-3 overhyping going on, and that is what Sam-sama was pushing back with those late July 2020 tweets. If you want to try to dig it up, you’ll need to go further back than that.
He definitely didn’t mention it much (which is part of what gave me that impression—in general, Sam’s public output is always very light about the details of OA research). I dunno about deleting. Twitter search is terrible; I long ago switched to searching my exported profile dump when I need to refind an old tweet of mine.
Are you thinking of this tweet? I believe that was meant to be a joke. His actual position at the time appeared to be that GPT-3 is impressive but overhyped.
I don’t believe that was it. That was very obviously sarcastic, and it was in July which is a month after the period I am thinking of (plus no chatbot connection), which is an eternity—by late July, as people got into the API and saw it for themselves, more people than just me had been banging the drums about GPT-3 being important, and there was even some genuine GPT-3 overhyping going on, and that is what Sam-sama was pushing back with those late July 2020 tweets. If you want to try to dig it up, you’ll need to go further back than that.
Searching his twitter, he barely seems to have mentioned GPT at all in 2020. Maybe he deleted some of his tweets?
He definitely didn’t mention it much (which is part of what gave me that impression—in general, Sam’s public output is always very light about the details of OA research). I dunno about deleting. Twitter search is terrible; I long ago switched to searching my exported profile dump when I need to refind an old tweet of mine.