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openai/gpt-3

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15,746Audience · researcherComplexity · 1/5Setup · easy

TLDR

Companion repository for the 2020 GPT-3 paper. Holds sample outputs, synthetic test datasets, training data statistics, and a model card. No code or model weights.

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    Contents
      Sample outputs
      Synthetic datasets
      Training data stats
      Model card
    Not Included
      Model weights
      Training code
      Inference code
    Use Cases
      Cite the paper
      Reproduce eval tasks
      Study few-shot learning
    Tech Stack
      JSON datasets
      Markdown
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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Cite the GPT-3 paper and link to its sample outputs

USE CASE 2

Reproduce the arithmetic and word-scramble eval tasks from the paper

USE CASE 3

Study GPT-3 training data statistics for a literature review

USE CASE 4

Read the model card to summarize GPT-3 capabilities and limits

What is it built with?

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How does it compare?

openai/gpt-3playcanvas/enginedyc87112/springboot-learning
Stars15,74615,74815,749
LanguageJavaScriptJava
Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity1/54/52/5
Audienceresearcherdeveloperdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Repo is a research artifact archive, there is no code or model weights to run.

In plain English

This repository is the companion to OpenAI's research paper introducing GPT-3, an AI language model trained on 175 billion parameters, at the time ten times larger than any comparable model. The paper, published in 2020, demonstrated that a sufficiently large language model can learn to perform new tasks from just a handful of written examples, without needing to be retrained on labeled data for each task specifically. This ability is called "few-shot learning." The repository itself does not contain GPT-3's code or weights. Instead, it hosts materials that accompany the paper: sample text outputs generated by the model, synthetic datasets used for certain word-scramble and arithmetic tests, statistics about the training data, and a model card (a summary document describing what the model does and its limitations). You would visit this repository if you are reading the GPT-3 research paper and want access to the datasets or sample outputs it references, or if you need to cite the paper in your own work. It is primarily useful to researchers and students studying the history of large language models. There is nothing to install or run here, it is a research artifact archive, not a deployable tool.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Summarize the GPT-3 paper using the model card and sample outputs in this repo
Prompt 2
Pull the word-scramble eval dataset from openai/gpt-3 and run it against a current open model
Prompt 3
List every task category covered in the GPT-3 sample outputs with one example each
Prompt 4
Write a literature review section comparing GPT-3 few-shot results to a modern open-weight LLM

Frequently asked questions

What is gpt-3?

Companion repository for the 2020 GPT-3 paper. Holds sample outputs, synthetic test datasets, training data statistics, and a model card. No code or model weights.

How hard is gpt-3 to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is gpt-3 for?

Mainly researcher.

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