{"id":112557,"date":"2020-09-05T09:24:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T16:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/this-know-it-all-ai-learns"},"modified":"2020-09-05T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T20:07:00","slug":"this-know-it-all-ai-learns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/this-know-it-all-ai-learns","title":{"rendered":"This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-know-it-all-ai-learns.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in July, OpenAI\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/07\/20\/1005454\/openai-machine-learning-language-generator-gpt-3-nlp\/\">latest language model, GPT-3<\/a>, dazzled with its ability to churn out paragraphs that look as if they could have been written by a human. People started showing off how GPT-3 could also autocomplete code or fill in blanks in spreadsheets.<\/p>\n<p>In one example, Twitter employee Paul Katsen tweeted \u201cthe spreadsheet function to rule them all,\u201d in which<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pavtalk\/status\/1285410751092416513\"> GPT-3 fills out columns<\/a> by itself, pulling in data for US states: the population of Michigan is 10.3 million, Alaska became a state in 1906, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Except that GPT-3 can be a bit of a bullshitter. The population of Michigan has never been 10.3 million, and Alaska became a state in 1959.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in July, OpenAI\u2019s latest language model, GPT-3, dazzled with its ability to churn out paragraphs that look as if they could have been written by a human. People started showing off how GPT-3 could also autocomplete code or fill in blanks in spreadsheets. In one example, Twitter employee Paul Katsen tweeted \u201cthe spreadsheet function [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112558,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112557\/revisions\/112558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}