OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless

By MIT Technology Review - 2020-12-30

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“Playing with GPT-3 feels like seeing the future,” Arram Sabeti, a San Francisco–based developer and artist, tweeted last week. That pretty much sums up the response on social media in the last few da ...

Summary

“Playing with GPT-3 feels like seeing the future,” Arram Sabeti, a San Francisco–based developer and artist, tweeted last week.
Mario Klingemann, an artist who works with machine learning, shared a short story called “The importance of being on Twitter,” written in the style of Jerome K. Jerome, which starts: “ All I seeded was the title, the author's name and the first "It", the rest is done by #gpt3 Others have found that GPT-3 can generate any kind of text, including guitar tabs or computer code.
GPT-3 often performs like a clever student who hasn't done their reading trying to bullshit their way through an exam.

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NLP (0.22)
Machine_Learning (0.09)
Backend (0.05)

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