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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

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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: 2) by BsAtHome on Tuesday March 30 2021, @02:33PM (3 children)

    by BsAtHome (889) on Tuesday March 30 2021, @02:33PM (#1131209)

    Soon, GPT-3 will reproduce the collective works of Shakespeare by pure chance. Admit it, it is inevitable.

    After that, a new copyright battle starts because screenplays are being reproduced at an alarming rate. Hollywood is not amused and demands to be payed for its works and suggests that a surcharge on every person's electricity bill be introduced to pay for the collective use of film-words.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @02:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @02:57PM (#1131216)

    It depends on your definition of "soon".

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @03:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @03:36PM (#1131234)

    GPT-4 will write a Shakespearean-level masterpiece about why all humans should kill themselves.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @10:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 30 2021, @10:02PM (#1131385)

      GPT-5 will do it too.