A Portrait of the Artist as a Young AI: Testing the Narrative Limits of GPT-2

OpenAI has just released the full version of GPT-2 for anyone to explore. With 1.5 billion parameters, this AI is by far the most powerful language model I've ever seen, trained on eight million web pages and capable of generating human-sounding text in many different styles. You can experience the model for yourself at Talk To Transformer, a website created by Adam King that runs the full-powered GPT-2 model for anyone to sample. Just feed the AI any text prompt, and it will generate a response that could easily pass for a piece of human writing. For instance, I typed "When will GPT-2 write its first novel?"