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Sunday Science Supplement for October 17, 2021 – DTH

Oct 17, 20214 min
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This week, Microsoft and Nvidia announced the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model which they call the "most powerful monolithic transformer language model trained to date". Dr. Nicole Ackermans breaks down the science of language models to help us understand the implications of this announcement. 

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