Key insights:
- Worries remain over its potential to create fake news and spam on a massive scale.
- Unlike previous systems, GPT-3 can imitate a style of writing after only seeing a few examples.
- Researchers found a worrying penchant for racial and gender biases.
Research group OpenAI set the artificial intelligence community abuzz when it released a new paper on the latest version of its cutting-edge language generation system, GPT-3. The model was trained on a dataset more than 100 times larger than the already record-breaking amount of text that informed the previous version, GPT-2.
