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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 12 2021, @09:42PM   Printer-friendly

Microsoft and Nvidia create 105-layer, 530 billion parameter language model that needs 280 A100 GPUs, but it's still biased

Nvidia and Microsoft have teamed up to create the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model, which the duo claims is the "most powerful monolithic transformer language model trained to date".

The AI model has 105 layers, 530 billion parameters, and operates on chunky supercomputer hardware like Selene. By comparison, the vaunted GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters.

"Each model replica spans 280 NVIDIA A100 GPUs, with 8-way tensor-slicing within a node, and 35-way pipeline parallelism across nodes," the pair said in a blog post.

[...] However, the need to operate with languages and samples from the real world meant an old problem with AI reappeared: Bias. "While giant language models are advancing the state of the art on language generation, they also suffer from issues such as bias and toxicity," the duo said.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday October 13 2021, @12:24AM (4 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Wednesday October 13 2021, @12:24AM (#1186532) Journal

    Transistors need bias..

    Just give us the straight dope, how many watts?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @12:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @12:29AM (#1186533)

    "Just give us the straight dope"

    N or P?

    I leave the "transistor bias" to the next EE dope.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @01:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @01:30AM (#1186541)

    84 kW?

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:20PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:20PM (#1186710) Journal

    Transistors need bias

    I may be biased, but I think some of those trans sistors are saturated with inexpensive alcoholic beverages.

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    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
    • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday October 13 2021, @09:33PM

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Wednesday October 13 2021, @09:33PM (#1186799) Journal

      They're not doped up?

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      La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..