The Power of GPT Three

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Gpt three excels on many tests of language generation, including trivia and comprehension. Program is like coaching a superintelligent cat into learning a new trick. Other language models also take words as input and generate a response as output. But the input prompts can't get them to do much beyond what they were fine tuned for.

In 2020, the artificial intelligence (AI) GPT-3 wowed the world with its ability to write fluent streams of text. Trained on billions of words from books, articles and websites, GPT-3 was the latest in a series of ‘large language model’ AIs that are used by companies around the world to improve search results, answer questions, or propose computer code.

However, these large language model are not without their issues. Their training is based on the statistical relationships between the words and phrases, which can lead to them generating toxic or dangerous outputs.

Preventing responses like these is a huge challenge for researchers, who are attempting to do so by addressing biases in training data, or by instilling these AIs with common-sense and moral judgement.

This is an audio version of our feature: Robo-writers: the rise and risks of language-generating AI

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