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📣 jaydd

What are the Implications of GPT-3?


From what I've been hearing, it's a game changer.


  👤 gas9S9zw3P9c Accepted Answer ✓
Preface: I'd wait a few months before declaring it a game changer. There currently is a huge OpenAI marketing campaign going on touting how amazing GPT-3 is. Almost all the GPT-3 press comes from OpenAI's friends and network of YC founders who got privileged access and promised to build apps on top of the new API. You can see that by looking at the most popular tweets and posts. It's usually ex-YC people who are now working on new GPT-3 powered apps. Their examples and demos are clearly cherry picked. It's the typical Silicon Valley VC pitch deck smoke demo approach that you would expect from SV startup people. Let the hype and marketing campaign settle down.

That being said, if it all works as promised and the model becomes widely available it's quite amazing and has the potential to change a few things. The obvious one is that it becomes much easier to automatically create plausible-looking content such as news stories, comments, etc. This will create many more bots and spam than you are used to seeing. The other obvious one is to act as a natural-language based search engine or database, where you can ask questions and get facts as answers. This would be restricted to non-subjective things that are in the training data of course.

On a longer time scale, it could drive the adoption of technologies around fact and identify verification. As it becomes so much easier to automatically generate content, we need to better ways to establish trust. Safety and bias is yet another, since anything generated will obviously be biased to whatever is most common in the training data.


👤 cpach
Link in case anyone wonders what GPT-3 is: https://news.developer.nvidia.com/openai-presents-gpt-3-a-17...

👤 rasz
Its a game changer if you are into trivia or generating nonsense. http://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.ht...

👤 Gurathnaka
I enjoyed Robert Miles' take on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yVOC4ciXc