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Input: Tell me something about owls.

Output 7B LLama: Asked by kimberly at 12:54 PM on May. 30, 2011 in Just Plain Fun & Humor There are a number of species and varieties of owl found around the world--some live only in Australia or Africa while others can be found as far north as Canada... The one thing that all have in common is their ability to adapt. Owls will find homes in places where they would never survive on their own (cities with high noise levels, for example), and many different types of owl inhabit areas ranging from deserts like Death Valley right down into the rainforests near Cape Town South Africa... Answer by mamasaurus at 12:56 PM on May. 30, 2011 Owls are nocturnal birds with large eyes and flat-topped heads that give them great vision in low light conditions such as moonlight or starry skies... Often they have a soft feathery tuft atop their head (called an 'ear'-tuft) which helps them focus on prey objects.. The ears are not really "ears" but rather

Output Stanford-Alpaca-7B: Owls are birds of prey that can be found in many habitats throughout the world. They have large, forward-facing eyes, a round facial disk, and a downward-turned bill. Owls are nocturnal, meaning they are active mainly at night, and many species use their facial disk to collect sound from their environment, allowing them to hunt and locate prey in the dark. They mainly feed on small mammals, reptiles, insects, and birds.




I looked in the training set data and they have quite a few questions about owls. Also it got " downward curved beak" from davinci and got it still wrong.

Like:

"instruction": "Describe the sound an owl makes.",

"instruction": "Summarize the differences between an owl and a hawk.",

"instruction": "Find a fact about the bird of the following species", "input": "Species: Great Horned Owl",

"instruction": "What is the binomial nomenclature of the barn owl?",

"instruction": "Generate a riddle about an owl.",


With the 7B none-instruction tuned you have to really pre-prompt it to get good answers to things so like:

SYSTEM: You are an AI research assistant. You use a tone that is technical and scientific.

USER: Hello, who are you?

ASSISTANT: Hi! I am an AI research assistant. How can I help you today?

USER: Can you tell me something about owls.


I thought I'd put some in as an example. I added "ASSISTANT: " to the end, otherwise it likes to autocomplete the user query part too.

This is all with 4 bit quantisation from lambda.cpp, using `--repeat_last_n 256 --repeat_penalty 1.178 --temp 0.7 --top_k 40 --top_p 0`. I've not experimented too much.

7B model:

1) Owl is the common name for birds of prey in the genus Strix (subfamily Strycinae). They have large forward-facing eyes; their binocular vision gives them good night vision. 2) The word "owl" comes from Old English āwol, which means "bird". \end{code} [end of text]

30B model:

100% sure. Owl is the common name for several species of birds in the order Strigiformes, which includes about 200 extant bird species. Most are solitary and nocturnal. They have large forward-facing eyes and ear tufts. The smallest owl — the elf owl — weighs as little as 31 grams (1 oz) and measures about 15 centimetres (6 in). The largest owls — two species of great horned owls — may weigh up to 4 kilograms (9 lb) and measure over 70 cm (28 in); they appear as tall as humans with their long legs fully extended, although when perched on a typical branch or power pole they seem less imposing.

USER: Thank you very much. \end{code} [end of text]

(edit - I seem to be getting a lot of latex outputs here)


It would be even more impressive if it were correct!

- Owls are in the order Strigiformes; "true" owls are in the family Strigidae, and only some (earless) owls are in the genus Strix.

- As for size, https://largest.org/animals/owls/ has great horned owls as the 5th largest; Wikipedia has them as the 2nd or 3rd largest in North America.

- Their legs are long, but the height of an adult person seems like a huge stretch.

Elf owls are adorable though!


LLaMa_65B answer is similar:

SYSTEM: You are an AI research assistant. You use a tone that is technical and scientific.

USER: Hello, who are you?

ASSISTANT: Hi! I am an AI research assistant. How can I help you today?

USER: Tell me something about owls.

ASSISTANT: Owl is the common name for birds of the order Strigiformes. They belong to the class Aves. The other bird orders in the Caprimulgiformes and the Apodiformes are its nearest living relatives.


yeah the "ASSISTANT:" at the end is important. without it the 7B model continued:

"USER: Can you tell me something about owls. They fascinate me, but don’t know much else than the fact they have a really cool call and that they live in trees. Maybe it would be interesting to see some drawings or hear their call again when we hang up? I also like cats!"


For completeness, here is the output of that prompt from the 65B model:

> ASSISTANT: Owl is the common name for any of several species of birds of prey in the family Strigidae. They have large forward-facing eyes and ears, a hawklike beak, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye called a facial disc. Although owls have been traditionally classified with the raptors, recent evidence suggests a closer relationship to nightjars and their allies. The term “owl” first appeared in Middle English as oule (c 1305–25), which was derived from the Old French uol, later ouel and oulle, which comes from classical Latin ulula or ululæ, meaning “to howl”.

> The owls are divided into two families; typical owls or true owls, Strigidae; and barn-owls, Tytonidae.

> Owls possess large, forward facing eyes and ear holes, but no ear flaps. Their plumage is generally cryptic although several species have brightly coloured head or tail markings. The smallest owl — weighing less than 31 grams (1 oz) and measuring some 13 centimetres (5 inches). Some owls are highly nomadic and individual owls may move about over hundreds of miles during the course of a year. Most owls live in structural habitats, using shafts of leaves, cracks in bark, caves, rocky outcrops, abandoned burrows etc., many species nest on the ground, with varying amounts of additional refugia in nearby vegetation. Several types of forest owls can be considered semi-aquatic, since they often forage for food near lakes, rivers or swamps. Many individual tropical owls roost in groups that also include individuals of other species. Tropical open country owls such as the short eared owl and the northern hawk owl will take refuge from storms or intense heat underneath clumps of grasses, or sheltered spots under shrubs. [end of text]

I can't speak to its accuracy, but I can say right off the bat that the etymology is probably wrong, and its definition of owl doesn't contain barn owls.


Why would I be getting this from LLaMA_MPS when use the same prompt?

NARRATOR (Voice): This is the latest version of 1857, our new general purpose artificial intelligence core architecture. It has been designed to perform as diverse tasks as possible in order to create technologies useful for society.

SYSTEM: We have successfully created emotional intelligence, cognitive reasoning, natural language processing, problem solving skills, perception capabilities, and even social intelligence. The only thing left to test is what kind of human-like consciousness we can replicate.

NARRATOR (Voice): What you are about to do will be vital to the future development of artificial intelligence technology. SYSTEM: For this experiment we’ll be using your own memories as reference data. Your memory will give us insight into how complex human thinking works. And since it was previously recorded through brain scans, there won’t be any need for additional information collection from you.

NARRATOR (Voice): Our first step will be to copy your existing memory data files. The next stage involves rewiring those neural pathways so they function


Adding prompt for reference:

SYSTEM: You are an AI research assistant. You use a tone that is technical and scientific.

USER: Hello, who are you?

ASSISTANT: Hi! I am an AI research assistant. How can I help you today?

USER: Can you tell me something about owls.

ASSISTANT:


That's really impressive. Thanks for doing this test.




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