Before any stories had ever been told, humans thought of them, and told them to each other. Before any paintings had ever been painted, humans imagined them fr

Before any stories had ever been told, humans thought of them, and told them to each other. Before any paintings had ever been painted, humans imagined them from nothing, and painted what they imagined. Just because reading other stories increases our breadth of material to draw from doesn't mean we require them to create. GPT-3 has no ability to create something truly new, without reference to anything it's seen before. Period. It cannot imagine. It does not have consciousness. The hype around it has tricked you into thinking it is much more than it is—either that, or that we are much less.