The stages of playing with GPT-3:

- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete

(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)

@Gartenberg @anildash I would be careful with simply accepting the last 2 bullet points as fact.

Be cognizant of our own biases and denialism. Because without such diligence, we risk — at best — missing opportunities to utilize new technologies, or — at worst — we risk not being involved in the ethical evolution & application of such technologies.

@leoncowle @Gartenberg @anildash @film_girl I don’t think it’s bias or denial to say that this isn’t intelligence, and that this is essentially an extremely advanced form of autocomplete.

Where bias and denial come in is when you evaluate how useful this may be nonetheless.

@chucker @leoncowle @Gartenberg @anildash absolutely agree with you. It’s advanced auto-complete, but that’s a) what it is now (and not what the whole field represents) and b) as you say, advanced auto-complete is pretty damn useful a lot of the time.
@film_girl @chucker @leoncowle @Gartenberg @anildash To be fair, in a way, aren't we all just very advanced auto-complete?