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In my opinion, GPT-3 is impressive not because it’s good at being human but because it’s good at doing lots of previously exclusively human things (like poetry)
by gbear605 6y ago
In my opinion, GPT-3 is impressive not because it’s good at being human but because it’s good at doing lots of previously exclusively human things (like poetry) without being human at all. It’s certainly a better poet than I am, though that’s a low bar. It’s still concerning for that reason though - that relatively dumb algorithms can convincingly do things like “write a news article” or “write a poem”. What happens when we get to algorithms that are a lot smarter than this one (but still not as smart as our brains)?
- api 6y agoI don’t think it’s a good poet. I think it does an excellent job assembling text that reads like poetry, but if you go read some good poets that’s only a small part of what makes their poetry good. Good poetry talks about the human experience in a place and time. It absolutely could be used to manufacture spam and low quality filler at industrial scale. Those couple Swedish guys that write almost all pop music should be worried about their jobs.