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 […]

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 […]

They also Meet a Clown who seems a little too Interested in Jesse’s Meth Cooking

I’ve not had much luck getting GPT-3 to create jokes, but it’s capable of writing plots for TV shows. There is a joke embedded in this absurd Friends plot I asked it to create. I would love to understand better how it came up with the joke. Presumably it ‘borrowed’ the concept from other jokes […]

Where is this road taking us?

(Or, What Happens when AI is Generating (and Consuming) most of the Internet’s Content?) I have some lighter content I want to post, but I’ll come back to that later. Something was on my mind yesterday and I’d like to share my thoughts in-progress. Fair warning, this isn’t a scientific thought experiment. I’m not a […]

Disruption is Coming

The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) has been hyped up quite a bit in recent years. Some believe that AI will usher in a new era of prosperity, while others are more cautious and believe that AI could pose a threat to society as we know it. The conventional wisdom until recently has been that […]