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.

Open any business publication or digital journal today, and you will read about the promise of AI, known as artificial or augmented intelligence, and how it will transform your business. The fact is: AI will not only transform your entire business -- whether you are in healthcare, finance, retail, or manufacturing -- but it will also transform technology itself. The essential task of information technology (IT) -- and how we measure its value -- has reached an inflection point. Instead, insight is the new currency. The speed with which we can scale that insight and the knowledge it brings is the basis for value creation and the key to competitive advantage.

Open any business publication or digital journal today, and you will read about the promise of AI, known as artificial or augmented intelligence, and how it will transform your business. The fact is: AI will not only transform your entire business -- whether you are in healthcare, finance, retail, or manufacturing -- but it will also transform technology itself. The essential task of information technology (IT) -- and how we measure its value -- has reached an inflection point. Instead, insight is the new currency. The speed with which we can scale that insight and the knowledge it brings is the basis for value creation and the key to competitive advantage.