Wordsmiths, get nervous.<\/p>\n
OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence outfit backed by Elon Musk, recently opened up access to GPT-3, a new AI language model.<\/p>\n
Its so powerful that it can produce text thats practically indistinguishable from human work.<\/p>\n
That used to be true. People fed books and scripts to these programs and generated hilariously bad endings to episodes of Game of Thrones.<\/p>\n
But while earlier models mimicked a humans vocabulary and writing style, GPT-3 is able to analyze context. One guy used GPT-3 to write an entire blog post, and he was surprised by the quality of the results.<\/p>\n
And thats not all GPT-3 can do<\/p>\n
The API currently is in beta, and you have to request access to use it. When the API becomes commercially available, OpenAI will use the proceeds to fund further research.<\/p>\n
We at The Hustle will be nervously watching for future developments. Last week, Microsoft cut dozens of full-time MSN staffers in favor of news curation thats handled by AI.<\/p>\n
Sam, look away.<\/p>\n
We asked Trung Phan, one of our Trends analysts, what he thought of this powerful new toy. Heres what he told us not aided by GPT-3 (or was he?).<\/p>\n
In the classic sci-fi movie Terminator 2, the villainous AI Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14am ET on August 29th, 1997.<\/p>\n
That prediction may have been 23 years too soon, but here we are. *nervous laughing*<\/p>\n
More seriously, the potential threat of general AI is grounded in something more (seemingly) benign than killer robots (read: The Paperclip Maximizer article and for a deeper dive this book).<\/p>\n
The purpose of OpenAI is to ensure the development of AI benefits all of humanity. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n
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