Philosophers on GPT-3
GPT-3 demonstrates that a huge volume of what's written is mostly bullshit. This is very upsetting to some. See "The Digital Zeitgeist Ponders Our Obsolescence" 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? "How-to" 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's wrong. It lacks adequate ties to the real world.<p>This is the "common sense" problem I've discussed previously. Figuring out what's going to happen next in the real world is often not a problem in word space. It's a problem in a different kind of space. The shape of that space is a big unsolved problem in AI.