Stone to Silicon

Artificial intelligence · 2022

InstructGPT

RLHF makes a 1.3B model preferred over the 175B GPT-3.

OpenAI fine-tuned GPT-3 on human demonstrations and then with reinforcement learning from human preference rankings. Labelers preferred the aligned 1.3-billion-parameter model's outputs to raw 175-billion-parameter GPT-3. This recipe became ChatGPT.

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