2/17/2023 0 Comments Wallace the brave 22.12.19A high-level ability to generate and comprehend complex language.Ĭomputer programmers and software developers attest that computers can certainly do these two things in ways that sufficiently imitate human performance.The ability to recognize and remember a set of sequential stimuli and complex patterns.Some of these capabilities are fundamentally cognitive, like these two: Over centuries, humans have identified a set of attributes that we claim for ourselves as distinctly human. In other words, if we claim that we can tell that a human and not a computer wrote something, what is it about the writing that would enable us to make that distinction? Manjoo’s piece, “Did A Human Write This?”, is intriguing in itself īUT here, in THIS piece of writing, I am asking a question that intrigues me much more: It claims to be able to match the pattern and “learn to write” in the same style as a human writer would. Apparently, you can “program” this software language model by providing a writing sample. Manjoo use the phrase “terrifyingly good” to describe this phenomenon? … (pause here a moment for internal reflection) … In another sentence, he nudges a bit closer to our real, human, concern - “I’ve never really worried that a computer might take my job because it’s never seemed remotely possible.” However, he goes on to introduce us to a relatively new piece of software, a “language model” called GPT-3 that seems to contradict this reassuring sentence. In the Fall of 2020, a columnist named Farhad Manjoo reported in The New York Times something that many of us have come to realize - that machines have been gaining in their ability to write for a long time now and, he says, “they are getting terrifyingly good at it.” Many people and businesses have greeted this news with appreciation, for it can enhance our ability to do our work in many useful ways. Click here for a PDF of this post: Did_A_Human_Write_This_SEPT1_FINAL
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