GPT-3 is making even more art obsolete
GPT-3 is a poet and may be sentient enough to know it
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OpenAIhave quietly released text-davinci-003, a brand new entry in theartificially-intelligentGPT-3 language model family, claiming that it can handle more complex prompts to produce longer outputs.
However, as reported byArs Technica, enterprising users usingPlayground, the free offering of GPT-3, quickly found that the new model is even more adept at producing poetry and lyrics.
Hacker Newscommentersfoundthat it could write poems about Einstein’s theory of relativity, and then rewrite them in the style of Romantic poet John Keats. While Professor Ethan Mollick, a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, waxed lyrical about the possibilities ina series of tweets.
GPT-3 art generation, and the future
The improvements to GPT-3’s understanding of rhyme and meter have likely come as a result of stuffing it with even more reference material. TheGithub repository for GPT-3acknowledges that it derives its enormous corpus from thousands of datasets.
Enthusiasts havenotedthat previous iterations of GPT-3 have had some cursory awareness of rhyme schemes, but this latest step forward is a sign that thisAI writernow has a complex grasp of meter, and could eventually compose artistic works of its own.
While all of these developments are exciting, they do raise the question of how human artists, writers, and - er - journalists, can exist alongside technology that’s becoming less and less “bleeding edge” with every passing day.
The fear amongst some is that AI, able to write and rewrite faster than any human, will take paying work away from them. AI-powered generation and manipulation of text is nothing new, with tools such asLanguage is a Virusand the GPT-3 poweredInferKithaving offered some version of these functions for some time.
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Though it’s true that AI text generators (and art generators such as DALL·E) take much of the labor out of creativity, humans must still craft the prompts. And when it comes to the ability to regenerate certain parts of an output as dictated by a person (“inpainting”, which both DALL E and the alternative Stable Diffusion are both capable of), this too is a human-driven process.
So instead of seeing the latest crop of truly competent AI-generation systems as a threat to human creativity, we could be thinking about how it can accommodate and collaborate with it.
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That could be as a means of inspiration, making artistic processes accessible to more people, or creating new human/AI-hybrid processes altogether.
And if you still feel threatened, consider this: if the content you produce is replicable by an AI system… wouldn’t you rather be making something else? A new and improved GPT-3 (or GPT-4, which is rumored to be on the horizon) could give you more time to do that.
Luke Hughes holds the role of Staff Writer at TechRadar Pro, producing news, features and deals content across topics ranging from computing to cloud services, cybersecurity, data privacy and business software.
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