full-sized GPT-2 model, called 1558M. Before November 5, OpenAI (An Artifical Intelligance Startup) had only released three smaller, less coherent versions of the model.While GPT-2 was only trained to predict the next word in a text, it surprisingly learned basic competence in some tasks like translating between languages and answering questions.Very soon it was able to be used for fake news and hate speech but it took a different turn when it predicted the coronavirus pandemic. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app