BREAKDOWN: What Is GPT-3 and Should We Be Terrified?
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🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The internet is alive with demos of what the latest artificial intelligence language model can do. Should we be nervous?
This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Crypto.com.
Today on the Brief:
- Mastercard, Standard Chartered and PayPal all deepen their engagement with crypto
- Japan inches closer to a central bank digital currency
- The real estate “doom trade” opens up
Our main discussion: GPT-3
Generative pertained transformer-3 – or GPT-3 as it’s better known – absolutely took over the internet this weekend.
It’s a new AI language model that can do some truly incredible things, from writing poetry to composing business memos to generating functioning code from natural language descriptions.
In this episode of the Breakdown, NLW provides a 101-level overview of GPT-3, including:
- What an AI language model is
- Why AI for language is more difficult than image-based AI
- The background of OpenAI, the Elon Musk-backed project behind GPT-3
- Some examples of what GPT-3 can do
- Why reasoning and narrative still elude the technology
Reference posts:
GPT-3 Examples, a Twitter Thread
Jonathan Johnson on AI Language Models
Rob Teows: GPT-3 Is Amazing – And Overhyped
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| 0:00.0 | Language models pose a threat to disinformation. |
| 0:03.8 | Where deepfakes are putting out fake videos of people, language models can be used by bad |
| 0:08.3 | parties to create junk news or increase catfishing scams through fake text messages, emails, |
| 0:13.3 | and social media status updates. |
| 0:15.4 | Articles generated by a machine continue to be released that look like other people actually |
| 0:19.7 | wrote them. |
| 0:20.9 | What this means effectively is that in the same way that visual AI creates the possibility |
| 0:27.3 | for deep fake videos and photos and forces us to be even more on our guard about that sort of visual |
| 0:34.4 | disinformation, this new language model technology should make us more on our |
| 0:40.2 | guard about what we read. Because the more that this AI gets trained, the more likely it is that |
| 0:46.0 | some of the things around us are designed specifically to manipulate us and not just by good |
| 0:51.4 | propagandists, but by actual machine propagandists. |
| 0:56.5 | Welcome back to the breakdown, an everyday analysis breaking down the most important stories |
| 1:01.6 | in Bitcoin, Crypto, and Beyond. This episode is sponsored by BitStamp and Crypto.com. |
| 1:09.9 | The breakdown is produced and distributed by Coindesk. |
| 1:14.3 | And now, here's your host, NLW. |
| 1:19.7 | What's going on, guys? |
| 1:20.9 | It is Monday, July 20th, and if your feeds were anything like mine over the weekend, |
| 1:26.2 | you saw a huge number of tweets |
| 1:29.0 | about GPT3, a new AI language prediction model that is just blowing people's minds. |
| 1:38.3 | Before that, however, two quick things. |
| 1:40.3 | First, if you like the breakdown, please rate and subscribe and review. |
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