OpenAI Bot Writes a Blog, Wows BitcoinTalk With 'Intelligent' Posts

Developer Manuel Araoz has played a practical joke online to demonstrate the potential of artificial intelligence bots -- by having a bot write an article about itself. According to a July 18 post on Araoz's blog, AI development company OpenAI released GPT-3, the third generation of its language prediction model capable of creating "random-ish sentences of approximately the same length and grammatical structure as those in a given body of text." The blog entry provides practical information regarding how the technology could be used to impersonate well-known figures by simulating their writing styles -- for example, Araoz used it to create a fake interview with Albert Einstein. He predicted that the GPT-3 could potentially replace journalists, political speech writers, and advertising copywriters. The bot's predicted sentences were used for posts on the bitcointalk.org "There are lots of posts for GPT-3 to study and learn from.