A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The New York Times

OpenAI’s GPT-3 and other neural nets can now write original prose with mind-boggling fluency — a development that could have profound implications for the future.

But as GPT-3s fluency has dazzled many observers, the large-language-model approach has also attracted significant criticism over the last few years. Some skeptics argue that the software is capable … [+6465 chars]

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