OPINION, Aleshia Howell: New artificial intelligence will change technology

So far in 2020's epic battle of nature vs. man vs. technology, man is not winning any "Best in Show" contests. So, needless to say, when a colleague sent me an article about the GPT-3 language generator released last week by the nonprofit artificial intelligence research company OpenAI, I was intrigued. The article is a blog post authored by Argentinian software engineer Manuel Araoz in which he describes his experiments with GPT-3 on the bitcointalk.org When he plugged some sample text into the model -- a few sentences from an existing forum post, for example -- GPT-3 generated an original body of text which mimicked the sentence structure, grammar and other subtleties of the sample… and with incredible results. GPT-3's predicted sentences read like they were written by a human.