The Future Just Took a Big and Scary Step Forward

The future took another step forward. But it was stopped right in its tracks by its inventor, OpenAI. According to its website, OpenAI is a non-profit AI research company, discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence. Elon Musk is one of the backers. In a recent blog post, OpenAI's technology, called GPT2, was shown to craft written passages that mimic the style and content of a given sample.