This kind of summarizes my impression. I'd add that the story has a style I've come to expect from GPT-3. Basically, sequence of superlative statement alternati

This kind of summarizes my impression. I'd add that the story has a style I've come to expect from GPT-3. Basically, sequence of superlative statement alternating with fairly vacuous "softeners" - "I was in the lab the day that the greatest discovery in the history of science was made (though I acknowledge that I may be biased)." ... "But life did develop on one planet, which evolved one of the most diverse biospheres we had ever seen..." If it was a human writer, I'd say that the breathless tone makes it exhausting to read. And the lack of simple, "fleshing out" sentences means that, for example, it talks a lot of being excited by testing "their theories" but doesn't ever say that those theories are. And lots of human-written stories also do that. Many science fiction writers don't know modern physics in any detail and don't work out their science-variations in great detail. But naturally this system doesn't know anything but associations between words and makes up for this lack by using those associations quite effectively.