GPT-3: What Is All the Fuss About?

"GPT-3 is not a mind, but it is also not entirely a machine. It's something else: a statistically abstracted representation of the contents of millions of minds, as expressed in their writing." In recent years, the AI circus really has come to town and we've been treated to a veritable parade of technical aberrations seeking to dazzle us with their human-like intelligence. Many of these sideshows have been "embodied" AI, where the physical form usually functions as a cunning disguise for a clunky, pre-programmed bot. Like the world's first "AI anchor", launched by a Chinese TV network and -- how could we ever forget -- Sophia, Saudi Arabia's first robotic citizen.