Tech Tent: Have we seen our AI future?

It could be evidence that artificial intelligence has made a great leap forward and human writers and software developers will soon be redundant. Or maybe it is just the latest example of the hype getting way ahead of the reality? On this week's Tech Tent we find out what the big fuss is about something called GPT-3. OpenAI is a Californian company started in 2015 with a high-minded mission - to ensure that artificial general intelligence systems that could outperform humans in most jobs would benefit all humanity. It was founded as a non-profit with generous donations from Elon Musk among others but was quickly transformed into a for-profit business, with Microsoft investing $1bn.