GPT-3: Intelligent A.I. or Vacant Programming?

A recent article published in the Guardian caught the attention of internet users worldwide. Unlike ordinary works of journalism that go viral, however, this particular piece was not written by a human. In a style that is evocative and attention-grabbing, The Guardian aptly titled it: "A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?" The "robot" in question is GPT-3, or "Generative Pre-Trained Transformative 3", OpenAI's third iteration of an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.