A new AI language model generates poetry and prose

The SEC said, "Musk,/your tweets are a blight./They Musk cried, "Why?/The tweets I wrote are not mean,/I don't use all-caps/and I'm sure that my tweets are clean."/"But THE PRECEDING lines--describing Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk's run-ins with the Securities and Exchange Commission, an American financial regulator--are not the product of some aspiring 21st-century Dr Seuss. They come from a poem written by a computer running a piece of software called Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 3. GPT-3, as it is more commonly known, was developed by OpenAI, an artificial-intelligence (AI) laboratory based in San Francisco, and which Mr Musk helped found. It represents the latest advance in one of the most studied areas of AI: giving computers the ability to generate sophisticated, human-like text.