The future of artificial intelligence is both amazing and scary. A new system can almost write and chat like humans do. The system, called GPT-3, was trained to analyze thousands of digital books, the entire Wikipedia, and 1 trillion words posted on the Internet for months in order for it to have a grasp of our natural language. When the GPT-3 was put to the test by 23-year-old programmer Mckay Wrigley, the results were astonishing:
One of his experiments involved a pop psychologist, Scott Barry Kaufman. The system took in Kaufman’s name and a topic for discussion: creativity. Then, when asked “How do we become more creative?” GPT-3 responded instantly:
“I think creative expression is a natural byproduct of growing up in a diverse world. The more diverse the world is, the more you get exposed to different people, to different opportunities, to different places and to different challenges. And the more diverse that is, the more likely you’ll be to be able to put the dots together to form something new. And in many ways, I think if you want to be creative, you have to go for it. If you want to be a writer, you have to write, if you want to be a musician, you have to create music, if you want to be a comedian, you have to create comedy, and the more you create, the more likely it is that you’ll stumble onto some interesting stuff.”
Later, when Wrigley posted the paragraph on Twitter, somebody looped in the real Scott Barry Kaufman. He was stunned. “It definitely sounds like something I would say,” the real Kaufman tweeted, later adding, “Crazy accurate AI.”
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