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Software engineers naturally focus on what's a new capability for software. GPT-3 looks nearly capable of shoveling out the sort of low-quality content that's p

Software engineers naturally focus on what's a new capability for software. GPT-3 looks nearly capable of shoveling out the sort of low-quality content that's primarily curated by other algorithms, like clickbait news or content marketing, which was still firmly beyond software capabilities last year. Software engineers also frequently underestimate what can already be done with a heap of poorly paid workers. So while it's a new capability for software, it's not a new capability for business. You're right that this can already be done with people.

killerstorm 6y ago
Have you ever hired human text writers? I have. And I can tell you even with not-so-poorly-paid people you often get craptacular results. Writing is really damn hard, especially writing something which require domain knowledge. From examples I've seen, it looks like GPT-3 works a lot better than your average human writer, for a fraction of cost, for a fraction of time. A lot of low-quality content you see on the web is more of a copy-paste job than actual writing. Arguable, GPT-3 is also doing a transformative copy-paste, but it remixes content of thousands of sources in a coherent way. Most people can't do that.