{"id":443860,"date":"2020-09-09T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/major-newspaper-publishes-op-ed-written-by-gpt-3.php"},"modified":"2020-09-09T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:59:43","slug":"major-newspaper-publishes-op-ed-written-by-gpt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/major-newspaper-publishes-op-ed-written-by-gpt-3.php","title":{"rendered":"Major Newspaper Publishes Op-Ed Written by GPT-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2020\/09\/newspaper-publishes-oped-gpt3-300x158.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"The newspaper The Guardian published an op-ed supposedly written by the AI algorithm GPT-3, but human editors had a major role in shaping the final version.\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><h2>Edit Test<\/h2><p>In order to show off how sophisticated language-processing artificial intelligence has gotten, the newspaper <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/sep\/08\/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3\">The Guardian <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/sep\/08\/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3\">commissioned<\/a> an op-ed written by the algorithm GPT-3.<\/p><p>GPT-3, the latest and most powerful text-writing AI algorithm developed by OpenAI, has made headlines for both its surprising <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/grad-student-neural-network-write-papers\">degree of coherence<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/08\/22\/1007539\/gpt3-openai-language-generator-artificial-intelligence-ai-opinion\/\">poor grasp on reality<\/a> that&rsquo;s common among AI systems. Now, in the&nbsp;<em>Guardian <\/em>op-ed,&nbsp;it argues &mdash; to the best of its ability &mdash; AI and humans can live in peace.<\/p><h2>Hype Machine<\/h2><p>More accurately, the algorithm wrote the first draft of eight different op-eds that the editors at <em>The Guardian<\/em> then spliced together, picking and choosing the best arguments of each &mdash; a fact that, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2020\/09\/08\/the-guardians-gpt-3-generated-article-is-everything-wrong-with-ai-media-hype\/\">as <em>The Next Web <\/em>points out<\/a>, you wouldn&rsquo;t know unless you read all the way to the fine print at the end.<\/p><blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watching journalists cheat to make a tech company's algorithm seem more capable than it actually is&hellip;. just&hellip;. have people learned nothing from the last decade about the importance of good coverage of machine learning?   <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jzXly03zZ5\">https:\/\/t.co\/jzXly03zZ5<\/a><\/p><p>&mdash; Martin F. Robbins (@mjrobbins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mjrobbins\/status\/1303293397147541505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><p>Editing is a normal part of publishing any piece of journalism, but as experts in the field <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mjrobbins\/status\/1303293397147541505\">pointed out<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/djleufer\/status\/1303297899762266112\">on Twitter<\/a>, having a reputable newsroom hype up GPT-3 runs the risk of misleading the public about an <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence-hype\">already-overhyped<\/a> area of technology.<\/p><blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guardian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@guardian<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GPT3?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GPT3<\/a> article is an absolute joke. It would have been actually interesting to see the 8 essays the system actually produced, but editing and splicing them like this does nothing but contribute to hype and misinform people who aren't going to read the fine print <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mt6AaR3HJ9\">https:\/\/t.co\/Mt6AaR3HJ9<\/a><\/p><p>&mdash; Daniel Leufer (@djleufer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/djleufer\/status\/1303297899762266112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><h2>Oddly Specific<\/h2><p>That said, the individual paragraphs within the op-ed were often coherent and resembled what you might find in a human-written argumentative essay, even if a shocking number of GPT-3&rsquo;s talking points mentioned violence and gore.<\/p><p>&ldquo;Overall, it took less time to edit than many human op-eds,&rdquo; <em>The Guardian<\/em> wrote.<\/p><p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/sep\/08\/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3\">A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?<\/a> [<em>The Guardian<\/em>]<\/p><p><strong>More on AI:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/grad-student-neural-network-write-papers\">This Grad Student Used a Neural Network to Write His Papers<\/a><\/em><\/p><p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/newspaper-publishes-oped-gpt3\">Major Newspaper Publishes Op-Ed Written by GPT-3<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p><p>The rest is here:<br><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/newspaper-publishes-oped-gpt3\" title=\"Major Newspaper Publishes Op-Ed Written by GPT-3\">Major Newspaper Publishes Op-Ed Written by GPT-3<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Edit Test In order to show off how sophisticated language-processing artificial intelligence has gotten, the newspaper The Guardian commissioned an op-ed written by the algorithm GPT-3. GPT-3, the latest and most powerful text-writing AI algorithm developed by OpenAI, has made headlines for both its surprising degree of coherence and the poor grasp on reality that\u2019s common among AI systems. Now, in the\u00a0 Guardian op-ed,\u00a0it argues \u2014 to the best of its ability \u2014 AI and humans can live in peace.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurism\/major-newspaper-publishes-op-ed-written-by-gpt-3.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}