Daniel Kokotajlo

By the end of 2022, leading large AI models will typically be fine-tuned to answer questions and to act as conversational chatbots.

Accurate ●●●●●
“Not only that, but they are now typically fine-tuned in various ways--for example, to answer questions correctly, or produce engaging conversation as a chatbot.”
Said on
6 August 2021 · 2022 section of his year-by-year AI scenario post
Source
What 2026 looks like · LessWrong
Should come true
2022
How sure they sounded
stated as fact in his best-guess scenario
Categories
AI
Importance
3 of 5 · Anticipates the instruction-tuned chatbot era that reshaped the tech industry

Outcome

Accurate Happened 30 November 2022.

OpenAI's instruction-tuned InstructGPT became its default API model in early 2022 and the RLHF-tuned ChatGPT launched on 30 Nov 2022; fine-tuning large models for question answering and chat became standard practice in 2022.

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