Artificial intelligence (AI) is doing what the tech-world Cassandras have been predicting for some time: It is sending out curve balls, leaving a trail of misadventures and tricky questions around the ethics of using synthetic intelligence. Sometimes, spotting and understanding the dilemmas AI presents is easy, but often it is difficult to pin down the exact nature of the ethical questions it raises. We need to heighten our awareness around the changes that AI demands in our thinking. If we don't, AI will trigger embarrassing situations, erode reputations and damage businesses. Two years ago, Amazon abandoned the AI tool it used to recruit employees.

With the recent tweet of Sharif Shameem of debuild, where he showed off a unique feature of OpenAI's GPT-3 which can generate codes, it has raised an interesting question in the programming scene. Whether this new language model released by OpenAI will kill coding or will create more productive programmers in the future. Being trained on billions of words from the internet has made GPT-3 capable of creating codes in CSS, JSX, Python etc. What's more, GPT-3 doesn't need to be trained at all for specific tasks, working on zero-shot learning, which makes it the largest model in the AI world with a strong performance on many NLP datasets allowing it to perform a range of tasks. Explaining the process, he said, "all I had to do is to re-write my two initial samples, and the GPT generated outputs in plain HTML/CSS." With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want, and it generates the JSX code for you.

The tech industry pays programmers handsomely to tap the right keys in the right order, but earlier this month entrepreneur Sharif Shameem tested an alternative way to write code. First he wrote a short description of a simple app to add items to a to-do list and check them off once completed. Then he submitted it to an artificial intelligence system called GPT-3 that has digested large swaths of the web, including coding tutorials. "I got chills down my spine," says Shameem. "I was like, 'Woah something is different.'" GPT-3, created by research lab OpenAI, is provoking chills across Silicon Valley.

It's easy to imagine the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution as years off in the future, but it might be much closer than you think. When Sharif Shameem posted to Twitter an experiment he did with GPT-3, a closed-access artificial intelligence, thousands in the technology community were stunned. With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want, and it generates the JSX code for you. With seemingly little effort, the two-minute clip appeared to show an AI understand how to write fairly complex computer code from a request in plain English, despite never having been trained to write code in the first place – or even understand English. 'It was never explicitly programmed how to read or how to understand English,' says Shameem, who has founded a start-up to help people develop web applications by writing in plain English.