2020-01-01 · article · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · en
highly citedfrom the source record
Abstract In this commentary, we discuss the nature of reversible and irreversible questions, that is, questions that may enable one to identify the nature of the source of their answers. We then introduce GPT-3, a third-generation, autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like texts, and use the previous distinction to analyse it. We expand the analysis to present three tests based on mathematical, semantic (that is, the Turing Test), and ethical questions and show that GPT-3 is not designed to pass any of them. This is a reminder that GPT-3 does not do what it is not supposed to do, and that any interpretation of GPT-3 as the beginning of the emergence of a general form of artificial intelligence is merely uninformed science fiction. We conclude by outlining some of the significant consequences of the industrialisation of automatic and cheap production of good, semantic artefacts.
Claims drawn from cited facts, not live model generation.
This paper is an article examining the ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence. As a published article, it should be weighted as a formal, peer-reviewed contribution rather than an unreviewed preprint.
5 cited facts
This work was produced by a small team of two researchers.
1 cited fact
The work has accrued 2500 citations, a count that marks it as an established reference point in its field. It references 20 works, indicating the scope of its engagement with prior literature.
3 cited facts
GPT-3: Its Nature, Scope, Limits, and Consequences is an article, focusing on Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, published in 2020.
GPT-3: Its Nature, Scope, Limits, and Consequences has 2,500 citations in our record, placing it among the highly cited works we track.
Our record lists 2 authors for GPT-3: Its Nature, Scope, Limits, and Consequences and references 20 other works. Author names aren't in our data yet — the source link on the page lists the full byline.
Source facts, citations, and refresh stamp for this record.
Sources: openalex_works