Wow, that was really impressive. I thought I had a clear idea of what GPT-3 could do, but I had underestimated by a lot. Even if the results weren't accurate, which they mostly seem to be, it's still doing an amazing job of following complex instructions. Better than most people I would guess
Makes me double down on my prediction a week or so ago* of a Mid-Level AI Knowledge Work Apocalypse. In the next decade, AIs like this are going to do to office work what robotic mechanization did to the manufacturing sector.
The alternative view is that those state of the art models are using technology/architectures/paradigms with an inherent limit and are very far away from automating all of those jobs.
At the end of the day, all the demos leave me with a feeling of disappointment. Current image synthesis models appear to be useless beyond doing experimental art for fun and novelty, chatbots still suck and copilot just (sometimes) replaces googling, but not developers or their education.
Have you been following what's been happening in Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? Much of that isn't even AI and it is having an impact on the workforce.
RPA is such an awful term for what is really primarily scripted or screen-recorded software bots that automate UI tasks, but I guess RPA is sexier. The term still seems to confuse people it seems.
Makes me double down on my prediction a week or so ago* of a Mid-Level AI Knowledge Work Apocalypse. In the next decade, AIs like this are going to do to office work what robotic mechanization did to the manufacturing sector.
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32395193