GPT-3: What Is All the Fuss About?

Fiona J McEvoy
The Startup
Published in
6 min readAug 4, 2020

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“GPT-3 is not a mind, but it is also not entirely a machine. It’s something else: a statistically abstracted representation of the contents of millions of minds, as expressed in their writing.” — REGINA RINI, PHILOSOPHER

Alan Turing statue, Manchester, UK

In recent years, the AI circus really has come to town and we’ve been treated to a veritable parade of technical aberrations seeking to dazzle us with their human-like intelligence…

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Fiona J McEvoy
The Startup

Tech ethics researcher. Founder of YouTheData.com. Tech issues for non-tech audiences. @YouTheData @FionaJMcEvoy