BioGPT: The ChatGPT of Life Sciences
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Dr. Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD.
Originally published on Towards AI.
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So, I am going to assume that you know that there has been ChatGPT rippling on the world wide web. You also know that this is a type of large language model. These models are kind of like digital brains that can understand and process language in all kinds of different ways. The GPT and general language models are, by definition, general. However, these models can be tuned to understand a specific context of language. That's where BioGPT comes into play.
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