Ask HN: Let's talk gpt-3 hype. overblown or justified?
I've counted between 3-5 GPT posts on the front page all today and yesterday
Not to mention 74% of my twitter feed.
Don't get me wrong, I was at peak hype. Top 10% of gpt-3 hypebeasts.
But now I'm thinking: "it's good, but what are the practical use cases that is effectively a babbling machine"
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.
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. Previously, Eliza and the likes could only mimic basic speech construction, with increasing levels of correctness. Now, GPT-3 can mimic meaning and understading, rather convincingly. Its mistakes are akin to a child's naive questions. 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. That's really huge, IMO.