HACKER Q&A
📣 giorgosera

How can GPT-3 help humanity fight Covid-19?


After watching all those amazing videos of GPT-3 I couldn't stop wondering if it can help in any way with covid-19!


  👤 rvz Accepted Answer ✓
> After watching all those amazing videos of GPT-3

Those 'amazing' GPT-3 videos only gloss over the good side of what GPT-3 can do given an input. They'll never tell you the number of times they cherry picked and edited the output or the mistakes it makes nor can GPT-3 itself reason of why it has generated that output or chosen those words in the sentences it generates.

If a black box neural network like GPT-3 still can't explain itself, then it cannot possibly safely help "humanity fight COVID-19" or any disease if you show the generated results to a medical professional.

So beware the hype brigade.


👤 sp332
GPT-3 is just a language model. You have to give it some information to work with. Maybe it could convert statistics or study results into layman's terms?

👤 minimaxir
It was trained on data prior to October 2019, so it can't help with COVID-19.

👤 uberman
Help as in keep people entertained, or help as in solve some medical research question?

👤 jeffreygoesto
It can't. Get a life.