Well, the first flight at kitty-hawk was an unimpressive 12 seconds, so it still took a quite a while for people to actually start admitting that practical powe

Well, the first flight at kitty-hawk was an unimpressive 12 seconds, so it still took a quite a while for people to actually start admitting that practical powered flight was possible or useful. Analogously, GPT-3 is clearly far from perfect. But it does seem to be sufficiently useful for people to use it as a creative writing tool already today. (Tantalizingly, there's some signs in people's playing with it that seem to suggest the beginnings of a there there. However, like a lot of people, I've been disappointed too often before to be sure; not without a lot more research. So I won't push that point today. )