I've counted between 3-5 GPT posts on the front page all today and yesterday<p>Not to mention 74% of my twitter feed.<p>Don't get me wrong, I was at peak hype. Top 10% of gpt-3 hypebeasts.<p>But now I'm thinking: "it's good, but what are the practical use cases that is effectively a babbling machine"<p>In other words if it's 95% believable, with the amount of nuance required for high skilled use cases or jobs, well, that's still not enough.<p>Your thoughts?
In terms of human development, publicly available and disclosed machine intelligence has reached what in human child development would be considered a major new milestone.<p>Previously, Eliza and the likes could only mimic basic speech construction, with increasing levels of correctness.<p>Now, GPT-3 can mimic meaning and understading, rather convincingly. Its mistakes are akin to a child's naive questions.<p>I would put its equivalent human age at about 3-5 years old. Sometimes 5-year-olds can come up with nonsense, and sometimes you have an "out of the mouths of babes" moment.<p>That's really huge, IMO.