gpt-3 VS lm-human-preferences

>I wasn't talking about "state of the art LLMs," I am aware that commercial offerings are much better trained in Spanish. This was a thought experiment based on comments from people testing GPT-3.5 with Swahili.

A thought experiment from other people comments on another language. So...No. Fabricating failure modes from their constructed ideas about how LLMs work seems to be a frustratingly common occurrence in these kinds of discussions.

>Frustratingly, just few months ago I read a paper describing how LLMs excessively rely on English-language representations of ideas, but now I can't find it.

Most LLMs are trained on English overwhelmingly. GPT-3 had a 92.6% English dataset. https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/blob/master/dataset_statisti...

That the models are as proficient as they are is evidence enough of knowledge transfer clearly happening. https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13349. If you trained a model on the Catalan tokens GPT-3 was trained on alone, you'd just get a GPT-2 level gibberish model at best.

anyway. These are some interesting papers

How do languages influence each other? Studying cross-lingual data sharing during LLM fine-tuning - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13286

Teaching Llama a New Language Through Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer - https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04042

Multilingual LLMs are Better Cross-lingual In-context Learners with Alignment - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05940

It's not like there is perfect transfer but the idea that there's none at all seemed so ridiculous to me (and why i asked the first question). Models would be utterly useless in multilingual settings if that were really the case.

Large models: Everything above 10B of parameters. This is where Llama 3, Llama 2, Mistral 8x22B, GPT 3, and most likely GPT 4 sit.

Are generative AI models useful for learning a language, and if so which languages? Over 90% of ChatGPT's training data was in English. The remaining 10% of data was split unevenly between 100+ languages. This suggests that the quality of the outputs will vary from language to language.

I have doubts it was extensively trained on German data. Who knows about GPT4, but GPT3 is ~92% of English and ~1.5% of German, which means it saw more "die, motherfucker, die" than on "die Mutter".

(https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/blob/master/dataset_statisti...)

Catalan was 0.018 % of GPT-3's training corpus. https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/blob/master/dataset_statistics/languages_by_word_count.csv.

>Certainly it is pleasing that they are not just doing Hindi, but some of these languages must be represented online by a very small corpus of text indeed. I wonder how effectively an LLM can be trained on such a small training set for any given language?

as long as it's not the main language it doesn't really matter. Besides English(92.6%), the biggest language by representation (word count) is taken up by french at 1.8%. Most of the languages GPT-3 knows are sitting at <0.2% representation.

https://github.com/openai/gpt-3/blob/master/dataset_statisti...

Competence in the main language will bleed into the rest.

Lest you think that that sounds like a too galaxy-brained possibility, it has already happened at OpenAI (scroll down to "Bugs can optimize for bad behavior"), just with a model that was very far from being capable enough to be dangerous.

Found relevant code at https://github.com/openai/lm-human-preferences + all code implementations here

That's why, when they're serious, they use RL for finetuning from human preferences (would be hilarious if this attempt to solve the terrible bias you take to be evidence of AGI threat ends up creating a Woke Singleton itself, btw); it's a powerful general approach, and I see no sign of it being applied here.

The kind of measures they are taking, like simply deleting wholesale anything problematic, don't really have a '-1'.

But amusingly, exactly that did happen in one of their GPT experiments! https://openai.com/blog/fine-tuning-gpt-2/

Code for https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08593 found: https://github.com/openai/lm-human-preferences