Social research and experiments with GPT-3

There have been various papers and articles recently that discuss the ‘personality’ of GPT-3 and seek to identify its biases and perspectives. What I’m writing about today is the opposite of that. Rather than probe GPT-3 for its identity, some researchers are what is possible when GPT-3 is prompted to assume a specific identity and […]

A gentle introduction to generative AI

I’ve realized something after writing this blog and talking with friends and co-workers about generative AI. It seems for most people, even in technology, it is still under their radar. There is a lot of competition for our attention in everyday life, and particularly so in IT where it can be a challenge to keep […]

GPT-3, Abstract Reasoning and Theory of Mind

Lately I’ve been experimenting with probing GPT-3 for demonstrations of reasoning, or at least the ability to mimic human reasoning. It is fascinating to me that out of training a model to “predict the next word” we’re seeing these emergent abilities. I’ve found it to be adept at producing analogies, which got me thinking about […]

This blog is written by a human (yeah, sure, exactly what an AI would say)

It’s getting harder to discern when content is AI-produced. I have to wonder how much current content in the wild is produced by GPT-3 enabled tools. The purpose of this blog is for me to share the more interesting things I run across, and I will make it clear when content is AI-produced. I intentionally […]