Philosophers on GPT-3
GPT-3 demonstrates that a huge volume of what&#x27;s written is mostly bullshit. This is very upsetting to some. See &quot;The Digital Zeitgeist Ponders Our Obsolescence&quot; in the linked article. What comes out of this system is better than most comments on political blogs, and sometimes better than the articles.<p>On what would this approach do badly? &quot;How-to&quot; material, I suspect. Trained on auto repair manuals, it could generate new, plausible, but useless, auto repair manuals. This gives us an insight into what&#x27;s wrong. It lacks adequate ties to the real world.<p>This is the &quot;common sense&quot; problem I&#x27;ve discussed previously. Figuring out what&#x27;s going to happen next in the real world is often not a problem in word space. It&#x27;s a problem in a different kind of space. The shape of that space is a big unsolved problem in AI.