GPT-3 Gave Me The Best Damn Marketing Advice

It’s not the marketing advice I expected from AI.

Jano le Roux
Technology Hits

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A cold hearted face that has a normal left eye emphasized by lifeless white lighting and a futureistic blue cyborg right eye engulfed by a dark shadow. Razor sharp barbed wire runs through its nose.
Image by Stefan Keller from Pixabay

As a director at a Bay Area marketing agency, I’ve recently had the privilege to play around with the infamous GPT-3 writing algorithm by OpenAI. I did what any marketer would do and asked for some good old marketing advice.

What came next did not only shock me, but it changed my view on AI as a whole. I learned that AI:

  • Is no longer the future. It’s the present.
  • Got much smarter than recognizing a dog on an image.
  • Is not only something we can train but a teacher we can learn from.

OpenAI downloaded around 45 terabytes of open web text and used it to train the GPT-3 model to such an extent that it could perceive words like a human. Understand words like a human. And write sentences like a human with more than 175 billion parameters.

GPT-3 crushes its predecessors:

A graph showing GPT-3 is exponentially more accurate than its predecessors. GPT-1 has 1.3B parameters with a max accuracy of around 5%. GPT-2 has 13B parameters with a max accuracy of around 25%. GPT-3 has 175B parameters with a max accuracy of around 65%.
GPT-1 in Green, GPT-2 in Orange, GPT-3 in Blue | Source: Open AI

After a couple of tiny tweaks and general inputs such as “marketing tips” and “marketing advice,” GPT-3 left me with 6 peculiar marketing truths.

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Jano le Roux
Technology Hits

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