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		dragonwriter on March 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The genie escapes: Stanford copies the ChatGPT AI ... > Doesn't 7B indicates that it was trained on 7 billion tokens? No, 7B means it has 7 billion parameters.

starik36 on March 21, 2023 [–]

And what does a parameter mean in this context?

dragonwriter on March 21, 2023 | [–]

A parameter is the connection weight between two neurons in the network.

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