Why GPT-3 is the best and worst of AI right now

By MIT Technology Review - 2021-03-02

Description

OpenAI’s language AI wowed the public with its apparent mastery of English—but is it all an illusion?

Summary

Why it matters: Related Story The AI is the largest language model ever created and can generate amazing human-like text on demand but won't bring us closer to true intelligence.
researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark estimate that training GPT-3 would have had roughly the same carbon footprint as driving a car the distance to the moon and back, if it had been trained in a data center fully powered by fossil fuels.
Much of its activity was harmless.

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NLP (0.39)
Machine_Learning (0.16)
Backend (0.11)

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