When A.I. Falls in Love Posted on : Nov 24 - 2020

GPT-3, the latest incarnation of artificially intelligent natural-language systems, knows how to write — and write and write and write. For a taste of what it can (and cannot) do, here are three examples of its verbosity.

In each case, we gave the system a short prompt (in italics) and let it roll. First we asked it to write about itself. Then, playing off a suggestion from a start-up called Sudowrite, which has spent months testing GPT-3, we asked the system to write a Modern Love column. It wrote dozens; like all romances, some turned out better than others.

We fed the system no information beyond the initial prompt; its writing is based on the thousands of websites, Wikipedia articles and self-published books it has metabolized during months of training. Except for the titles, the entries are entirely unedited.

Et Tu, Robot

It is called GPT. And it is the near future of artificial intelligence. After analyzing thousands of websites, Wikipedia articles and self-published books, it learns to write on its own.

The great thing about this application is that it is perfectly natural. As Andrew Ng, the chief scientist of Baidu, said, “It didn’t take me long to get used to the idea that A.I. could write something that reads like it was written by a human.”

So what will the next five years look like?

By 2020, the first generation of chat-bots will be able to chat with people on a wide variety of topics.

By 2025, self-driving cars will be mainstream, and so will electric vehicles, which will account for a majority of the market.

By 2030, A.I. will have become much smarter and will be able to do things that we cannot even imagine.

This is a great time to be alive.

The only problem is that, in the next five years, A.I. will replace millions of jobs.

By 2020, over five million jobs will be lost, and the number of jobs will continue to increase with each passing year.

By 2030, 50 percent of jobs will be lost.

However, there will be a silver lining. There will be a lot of new jobs that require a high degree of creativity and emotional intelligence. So if you are a computer programmer, don’t lose hope.

The thing that we can be sure of is that the A.I. revolution is not a myth. It is the future. And it is happening right now.

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