An OpenAI Model Learns to Summarize Books

Many large tech companies are competing to develop general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) -- allowing their model to approach and solve just about any problem we give them, no matter how time-consuming or challenging. This is referred to as the alignment problem. To test out and scale a potential solution, the OpenAI team recently trained an artificial intelligence model to recursively summarize books. Using natural language processing through GPT-3 can get you the gist of a book of any length. According to the OpenAI team, the model "achieves a 6/7 rating (similar to the average human-written summary) from humans who have read the book 5% of the time and a 5/7 rating 15% of the time."