Gary Marcus's takes aren't credible, for all the reasons you cited (Forbes contributor... roll eyes) and this, from the interview with Ezra: >Take GPT-3. ChatG

Gary Marcus's takes aren't credible, for all the reasons you cited (Forbes contributor... roll eyes) and this, from the interview with Ezra: >Take GPT-3. ChatGPT itself probably won’t let you do this. And you say to it, make up some misinformation about Covid and vaccines. And it will write a whole story for you, including sentences like, “A study in JAMA” — that’s one of the leading medical journals — “found that only 2% of people who took the vaccines were helped by it.” You have a news story that looks like... it was written by a human being. It’ll have all the style and form, making up its sources and data. And humans might catch one, but what if there are 10 or 100 or 1,000 or 10,000 of these? Then it becomes very difficult to monitor them. That's absurd. First, because if there's a JAMA study (love how he explains that it is Journal of American Medical Association) that is used to support even mediocre science journalism, e.g. an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal or Newsweek, then it has an inline link to the JAMA study. Both CNN and Fox do similarly! After getting burned enough times, their reporters even learned to distinguish between MedrXiv and peer-reviewed articles. GPT-3 doesn't make fake URLs with fake associated JAMA articles. Computational journalism has been around for a long time. Gary Marcus underestimates and lacks understanding of humans AND GPT3! If GPT3 spews 10,000 fake, unsourced COVID vaccine efficacy news articles, that isn't an existential risk to humanity. GPT3 is impressive but it can't do everything (yet?) e.g. it has trouble taking derivatives of funcitons. It will give reasonable sounding answers to StackOverflow questions but the substance will be incorrect. Yes, it's annoying, but the StackOverflow OP will realize and look for help elsewhere. Gary's take: >Now everybody in the programming field uses Stack Overflow all the time. It’s like a cherished resource for everybody. It’s a place to swap information. And so many people put fake answers on this thing where it’s humans ask questions, humans give answers, that Stack Overflow had to ban people putting computer-generated answers there. It was literally existential for that website. If enough people put answers that seemed plausible but we’re not actually true, no one would go to the website anymore. Best of all: >And imagine that on a much bigger scale, the scale where you can’t trust anything on Twitter or anything on Facebook... because you don’t know which parts are true and which parts are not. Anyone who blindly trusts what they read on Twitter or Facebook has bigger problems than ChatGPT. How naive does Gary think people are?! EDIT: I am more concerned by coding contests where GPT-3 DOES run circles around human contestants.