AI Says Men Are Lazy
Artificial intelligence's latest darling illustrates its flaws.
Hey all, it’s Eric. Advances in artificial intelligence are often framed as though they’ll upend human society overnight, and for the last month technologists have had a new darling to obsess over. It’s a piece of software called GPT-3, which can write essays, songs and computer code in response to requests that humans type into its interface in plain text.
The program comes from OpenAI, a top artificial intelligence research organization. OpenAI recently began giving technologists access to it in a private testing period, and they are in love. GPT-3 can build a website layout based on a text-based description, or write a Harry Potter story in the style of a hard-boiled detective novel. One blogger said it might be the “biggest thing since Bitcoin.”