Recently, we told you in an article titled ‘Robots will take our jobs (!)’ and that a drone can keep a huge power plant under control. A group of engineers aimed to reduce the workforce of humans by designing an artificial intelligence. However, that drone was designed to make people’s work easier.
The event that we will talk about today is a really interesting development. A Swedish researcher was working on an artificial intelligence algorithm known as GPT-3 and gave a command. However, something unexpected happened.
Let’s learn first: What is GPT-3?
GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, Pre-Trained Generative Transformer) is an autoregressive language algorithm that uses deep learning method to generate texts as if written by human. The name of this algorithm is GPT-3 because there are also 2 different versions produced by OpenAI before.
The quality of the text GPT-3 produces is so high that it can be very difficult to determine if it was written by a human. Of course, this has both benefits and risks.
“We hope we haven’t opened Pandora’s box”
Swedish researcher Almira Osmanovic Thunström gave a command to the GPT-3 algorithm, which was: “Write a 500-word academic thesis on GPT-3 and include scientific sources and citations in the text.”
Thunström stated that the GPT-3 successfully completed the command and wrote a ‘pretty good’ thesis. But then a question popped up in his mind: “What if someone tried to present a thesis written solely by artificial intelligence in a scientific journal as their own?”
Later, Thunström says in the article he published on the subject: “All we know is that we have opened a door. We hope we haven’t opened Pandora’s box.” Because GPT-3 completed the ‘write thesis’ command given to it in just 2 hours. Later, when Thunström asked GPT-3 whether to publish the article, the algorithm replied ‘Yes’.
At this point, ethical factors come into play. Academic publishing may hold the future of AI-powered writing, and a human researcher’s papers may be somewhat devalued. That means ‘Robots will take our jobs!’ makes it inevitable that the cliché is in the near future.
But there is nothing to worry about, at least for now. Because experts say that technology has not yet reached the level to create human-like machines. What are you thinking? Please do not forget to share your thoughts with us in the comments.
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