The future of AI is a conversation with a computer

How would an AI writing program start an article on the future of AI writing? Well, there's one easy way to find out: I used the best known of these tools, OpenAI's GPT-3, to do the job for me. Using GPT-3 is disarmingly simple. You have a text box to type into and a menu on the side to adjust parameters, like the "temperature" of the response (which essentially equates to randomness). You type, hit enter, and GPT-3 completes what you've written, be it poetry, fiction, or code. I tried inputting a simple headline and a few sentences about the topic, and GPT-3 began to fill in the details. It told me that AI uses "a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language" and that these programs analyze "the statistical properties of the language" to "make educated guesses based on the words you've typed previously."