Social media is awash with people talking about a new piece of software called GPT-3, which is a language-generation tool capable of producing human-like text on demand. The software learned how to produce text by analyzing vast quantities on the internet and observing which letters and words tend to follow one another.
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Why everyone is talking about the A.I. text generator released by an Elon Musk-backed lab
“It’s far more coherent than any AI language system I’ve ever tried,” wrote entrepreneur Arram Sabeti in a blog post after testing. “All you have to do is write a prompt and it’ll add text it thinks would plausibly follow. I’ve gotten it to write songs, stories, press releases, guitar tabs, interviews, essays, technical manuals. It’s hilarious and frightening. I feel like I’ve seen the future.”
