What You Need to Know About GPT-3 And Why It Matters
An idiot’s guide to GPT-3 and what is to come
Nowadays, everyone is talking about GPT-3 — an AI tool that has been developed by San Francisco-based OpenAI. Although it does not have a mind of its own, GPT-3 can do almost anything.
I am not a technology person. I know next to nothing about artificial intelligence. Nevertheless, I have found myself obsessing over GPT-3 over the past few weeks. I read about 50 articles and blog posts on GPT-3. The more I learned, the more I became fascinated and terrified by this new AI paradigm and technology.
The Verge has just called GPT-3 ‘an invention that could end up defining the decade to come.’ The New York Times has described it “by far the most powerful language mode ever created”. MIT Technology Review article by W. D. Heaven called it “shockingly good — and completely mindless.”
You know a breakthrough innovation has just happened when even philosophers jump into the topic: Regini Rini has stated: “GPT-3 is not a mind, but it is also not entirely a machine. It’s something else: a statistically abstracted representation of the contents of millions of minds, as expressed in their writing.” David Chalmers has commented GPT-3’s impressive dexterousness makes it one of the most interesting and important AI…
