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According to the speaker's account of the rumor, Noam Shazeer found bugs in GDM's codebase by knowing where to look, and this explained the improved training run.
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“And the reason why is that Noam Shazir just looked at their code base and found a bunch of bugs because he just like knew where to look.”Play from 37:50Report a misattribution
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