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GPT-3 is one big, very expensive, Microsoft-exclusively licensed, Billion-dollar Killjoy. I totally agree with you on that.

If only GPT-3 was for sh*ts and giggles I'd be with you. But hey Microsoft dumped a load of money into this and wow these amazing AI researchers are banking big buck on GPT-3 being the answer to life, the universe, and everything (pun intended). AI researchers are staking major claim on all these amazing things GPT-3 can and will do.

So pardon me if I'm non-plussed about all these wacky and crazy things we can do with the largest neural network ever trained.

Maybe after all it's a billion-dollar Madlib. Let's see what the big computer can do by generating probabilistic strings of text. There must be a business in there somewhere.



>AI researchers are staking major claim on all these amazing things GPT-3 can and will do.

I don't think they are, at all. Certainly outside of OpenAI there is a huge amount of skepticism...


I'm referring to the world-class AI researchers working at OpenAI itself and their own claims. Including those from Ilya Sutskever and others being paid prime salary to participate in OpenAI.


Well obviously people are going to hype their own product. Not sure why that deserves extra scrutiny in this case...

Also not aware of Ilya saying anything particularly outrageous




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