What Is GPT-3 and Should We Be Terrified?

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today on the Brief:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Mastercard, Standard Chartered and PayPal all deepen their engagement with crypto</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Japan inches closer to a central bank digital currency</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The real estate “doom trade” opens up</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our main discussion: GPT-3</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generative pertained transformer-3 – or GPT-3 as it’s better known – absolutely took over the internet this weekend. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a new AI language model that can do some truly incredible things, from writing poetry to composing business memos to generating functioning code from natural language descriptions.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode of the Breakdown, NLW provides a 101-level overview of GPT-3, including:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What an AI language model is</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why AI for language is more difficult than image-based AI</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The background of OpenAI, the Elon Musk-backed project behind GPT-3</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some examples of what GPT-3 can do</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why reasoning and narrative still elude the technology</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reference posts:</span></p> <p><a href= "https://mobile.twitter.com/xuenay/status/1283312640199196673"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> GPT-3 Examples, a Twitter Thread</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.bmc.com/blogs/ai-language-model/#:~:text=A%20language%20model%20is%20a%20statistical%20tool%20to%20