OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin

OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company backed by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Marc Benioff, Sam Altman and others, released its third generation of language prediction model (GPT-3) into the open-source wild. Language models allow computers to produce random-ish sentences of approximately the same length and grammatical structure as those in a given body of text. In my early experiments with GPT-3 I found that GPT-3's predicted sentences, when published on the bitcointalk.org I imagine that similar results can be obtained by republishing GPT-3's outputs to other message boards, blogs, and social media. I predict that, unlike its two predecessors (PTB and OpenAI GPT-2), OpenAI GPT-3 will eventually be widely used to pretend the author of a text is a person of interest, with unpredictable and amusing effects on various communities.