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> Having GPT-3 render a first draft of books in the archetype you mention (one simple idea stretched out over many pages). Given what I've seen so far with GPT
by abernard1 6y ago
> Having GPT-3 render a first draft of books in the archetype you mention (one simple idea stretched out over many pages).
Given what I've seen so far with GPT-3, that simple idea would have to have already been discussed at length on forums on the internet and in the corpus.
Usually books have facts and studies that they use as supporting points. Many of the connections they make between the subject material and their thesis are unique, and this forms their supporting argument. GPT-3 is rearranging words and sentences to resemble structures it's seen before, but it does not create novel facts.
- visarga 6y agoSo ideally it could work like a meta-study. Meta-studies combine results from multiple separate studies, making correlations and drawing more confident conclusions. Most 'original' human ideas are just reinventions of older ideas, too. The interesting part is that GPT-3's leap in performance can be attributed to scaling. That's easier to do than inventing completely new approaches. Scale data, scale compute, scale money, then you have something you couldn't have invented directly.