Hi everyone welcome to this week's episode of 16 minutes I'm sonel your host and this is our show where we talk about the headlines

What's in the news and where we are on the long arc of tech trends we're back from our holiday break and so this week we're covering all the recent and ongoing buzz around the topic of

GPT3, the natural language processing based text predictor from the San Francisco Research and Development Company, Open AI.

They actually released their paper on GPT3 in late May, but only released their broader

commercial API a couple of weeks ago, so we're seeing a lot of excitement and activity around that in

particular although it's all being called gp t3 so we're gonna do one of our

explainer episodes it's a two X explainer episode going into what it really is, how it works, why it matters,

and broader implications and questions, while teasing apart what's hype, what's real, as is the premise

of this show.

But before I introduce our expert, let me just quickly summarize some of the highlights. So while

GPT3 is technically a text predictor, that actually reduces what's possible because of course words and

software are simply the encoding of human thought to borrow a phrase from

Chris Dixon which means a lot more things are possible so we're seeing and note these

are all cherry-picked examples believable forum post, comments, press releases, poetry, screenplays, articles,

someone even wrote an entire article headlined Open A Eyes, GPT 3, maybe the biggest thing since

Bitcoin and then revealed midway that he didn't actually

write the article but that G. P. 3 did. We're also seeing strategy documents like for business,

CEOs and advice written entirely in G. P and not just words but we're seeing people

design using words to write code for designing websites and other designs

someone even built a Figma plugin again all of it showing the transmutability of thoughts to words to code, to design, and so on.

And then someone made a search engine that can return answers and URLs in response to quote ask me anything which is anyone who's been in the

NLP space knows. I was at park when we spun off PowerS that back in the day and

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