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GPT-3 Has Learned to Code, Blog and Argue

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And certainly has the most important skill ... marketing.

Nope. That part is outsourced to humans.

By "argue" they almost mean "troll". Meaningful debate, from all the examples I've seen, does not appear to be a skill of this new lifeform.

> By "argue" they almost mean "troll". Meaningful debate, from all the examples I've seen, does not appear to be a skill of this new lifeform.

That's good enough to use for disinformation and other kinds of control. The propaganda tactic that actually seems to work is not to convince your opponents of anything, but rather to exhaust, fragment, and confuse them.

Yeah... is discussion helpful to anyone if it isn't coming from a human? hmmm

medical students could use this to practice difficult end-of-life conversations with a chatbot

So we are just an inch closer to this: https://xkcd.com/810/

Give it 20 years :)

Just need to learn how to debug and troubleshoot now...

You obviously need to just say "Hal, run diagnostics".

Hey Siri, open the iPod bay doors!

"diagnostics completed, solving root problem, building Skynet..." :P

  I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.

This quote always gets me. He couldn't help being a traitorous murderer, but he sounded so sincere.

"Someone" (you know who you are) needs to create a HN account for GPT-3 under a cute name so it can be our Sheldon.

Does anyone know if the code GPT-3 writes is Web Scale?

it's actually just one massive index.php file but they use opcache so it's ok

The level of discussion presented by the MongoDB fan in that video is basically what GPT-3 does, completely superficial waffle strung together in roughly valid sentences.

Obviously 80% of everything else is crap too, but our brains do it for about 20W. That latter figure makes me think we aren't even close.

I'm getting a bug halfway down the page with Firefox on Android, couldn't read about learning to code.

Coding may be a good use of this as someone noted that gpt3 can often give creative answers more often than objective answers.

There currently is no objective solution to problems after abstraction. "Good enough" is somewhat the motto in programming.

On the contrary, if you ask it to design a bridge(or new invention), it would need to combine both specifications with somewhat complicated physics and geometry. Unlike in Programming, 'Good enough' is not ok, it needs to be perfect.

Would be a fantastic tool if every profession could skip the time consuming process of writing and debugging code.

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