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While we're all having fun watching people play with GPT-3 right now, I'm feeling the same itch on the back of my head I felt back in the mid-2000's when ordina
by gary_0 6y ago
While we're all having fun watching people play with GPT-3 right now, I'm feeling the same itch on the back of my head I felt back in the mid-2000's when ordinary people started piling into social media and carrying the Internet around in their pocket. The nagging thought that this toylike tech could end up having an unpredictable effect on the world. What is the "Cambridge Analytica" moment of neural network tech going to look like?
- techdragon 6y agoMy money is on GTP-3 and it’s descendants eroding the ability to discern fact and even deliberately written fiction, from machine generated junk. As these models get used to drive summaries and other text processes their pseudo-meaning will creep out from a kind of textual uncanny as everyone gets used to it... eventually it becomes dangerously difficult to glean actually useful knowledge from repeatedly reprocessing the now polluted corpus of “real world text” and we get some real world consequences, much like the failure of engineering at NASA to convey the risk of launching Challenger in the cold, when forced to summarise it to a single slide it conveyed the opposite meaning to management. When we stop doing the summary ourselves were in for trouble eventually.