DeepMind’s new 280 billion-parameter language model kicks GPT-3’s butt in accuracy

Move over GPT-3, there’s a scrappy new contender for the crown of world’s greatest language model and it’s from our old pals over at DeepMind. Up front: The Alphabet-owned UK outfit that answered the question of whether humans or computers are better at chess once and for all – the machines won – has now set its sights on the world of large language models (LLM). To that end, today it announced “Gopher,” a language model that’s about 60% larger, p