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OpenAI’s Text-Generating System GPT-3 Is Now Spewing Out 4.5 Billion Words a Day

posted by martyb on Tuesday March 30 2021, @01:30PM   Printer-friendly

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

OpenAI's Text-Generating System Gpt-3 Is Now Spewing Out 4.5 Billion Words A Day:

The best-known AI text-generator is OpenAI's GPT-3, which the company recently announced is now being used in more than 300 different apps, by "tens of thousands" of developers, and producing 4.5 billion words per day. That's a lot of robot verbiage. This may be an arbitrary milestone for OpenAI to celebrate, but it's also a useful indicator of the growing scale, impact, and commercial potential of AI text generation.

OpenAI started life as a nonprofit, but for the last few years, it has been trying to make money with GPT-3 as its first salable product. The company has an exclusivity deal with Microsoft which gives the tech giant unique access to the program's underlying code, but any firm can apply for access to GPT-3's general API and build services on top of it.

[...] All this is good news for OpenAI (and Microsoft, whose Azure cloud computing platform powers OpenAI's tech), but not everyone in startup-land is keen.

[...] Like many algorithms, text generators have the capacity to absorb and amplify harmful biases. They're also often astoundingly dumb. In tests of a medical chatbot built using GPT-3, the model responded to a "suicidal" patient by encouraging them to kill themselves. These problems aren't insurmountable, but they're certainly worth flagging in a world where algorithms are already creating mistaken arrests, unfair school grades, and biased medical bills.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @02:08PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @02:08PM (#1131198)

    What's not to like?

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by DannyB on Tuesday March 30 2021, @05:07PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 30 2021, @05:07PM (#1131279) Journal

    Think of the applications:

    • Advertising copy
    • Live on-air teleprompter copy for news anchors
    • Auto generated legislation or amendments to bills

    What we really need is an AI that can generate PowerPoint slides with pictures for managers to present.

    --
    The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @10:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @10:00PM (#1131383)

    I get about a dozen "Leadership" messages per day full of corporate bullshit. And this is at a university. I can't imagine the Vice Chancellor wasting his precious executive time pounding out this crap, which is where the bold, innovative, disruptive plan to outsource it to an AI generator. Promotions all round.