🔮 Massive AI models; social media extremism; carbon dioxide removal; resilient cities, chastity cages & renting people ++ #305

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Google recently trained a new language model with 1.6 trillion parameters. The more parameters, the more sophisticated a model can appear. OpenAI’s GPT-3, about which I’ve written, had 175bn parameters and good craft some technically impressive outputs. Now that firms have figured out that increasing the complexity of these models drops jaws, there is obviously some competition going on. Microsoft (which pulled out a 17bn model last year that was briefly the world’s biggest) is also in the runni…