Frontiers of artificial intelligence: Do androids dream of electric sheep? - Katoikos

In 2020, the American poet Andrew Brown gave a student the following assignment: write a poem from the point of view of a cloud looking down on two warring cities. "I think I'll start to rain, Because I don't think I can stand the pain, Well, Brown's'student' turned out to be a computer program, not a human. The program, called GPT-3, is one of the most powerful AI language models ever made. Created in 2020 by the research firm OpenAI, its development has cost tens of millions of dollars. Trained on 200 billion words from books, articles, and websites, GPT-3 can generate fluent streams of text on any topic you can imagine. Companies like Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, and LinkedIn feed our personal preferences into them to create targeted recommendations.