So far in 2020's epic battle of nature vs. man vs. technology, man is not winning any "Best in Show" contests. So, needless to say, when a colleague sent me an article about the GPT-3 language generator released last week by the nonprofit artificial intelligence research company OpenAI, I was intrigued. The article is a blog post authored by Argentinian software engineer Manuel Araoz in which he describes his experiments with GPT-3 on the bitcointalk.org When he plugged some sample text into the model -- a few sentences from an existing forum post, for example -- GPT-3 generated an original body of text which mimicked the sentence structure, grammar and other subtleties of the sample… and with incredible results. GPT-3's predicted sentences read like they were written by a human.

"I share my early experiments with OpenAI's new language prediction model (GPT-3) beta. I explain why I think GPT-3 has disruptive potential comparable to that of blockchain technology." Araoz put GPT-3 to the test in several other ways, using it to make complex texts more understandable, to write poetry in the style of Borges in the Spanish language and write music in ABC notation.

Developer Manuel Araoz has played a practical joke online to demonstrate the potential of artificial intelligence bots -- by having a bot write an article about itself. According to a July 18 post on Araoz's blog, AI development company OpenAI released GPT-3, the third generation of its language prediction model capable of creating "random-ish sentences of approximately the same length and grammatical structure as those in a given body of text." The blog entry provides practical information regarding how the technology could be used to impersonate well-known figures by simulating their writing styles -- for example, Araoz used it to create a fake interview with Albert Einstein. He predicted that the GPT-3 could potentially replace journalists, political speech writers, and advertising copywriters. The bot's predicted sentences were used for posts on the bitcointalk.org "There are lots of posts for GPT-3 to study and learn from.