OpenAI's new multitalented AI writes, translates, and slanders - CTOvision.com

OpenAI's researchers knew they were on to something when their language modeling program wrote a convincing essay on a topic they disagreed with. They'd been testing the new AI system by feeding it text prompts, getting it to complete made-up sentences and paragraphs. Then, says David Luan, VP of engineering at the Californian lab, they had the idea of asking it to argue a point they thought was counterintuitive. In this case: why recycling is bad for the world. For decades, machines have struggled with the subtleties of human language, and even the recent boom in deep learning powered by big data and improved processors has failed to crack this cognitive challenge.