> What it really demonstrates is that much of literature has less behind it than was previously supposed.
I'm uncomfortable with this statement because GPT-3 is in a sense copying or sourcing a massive corpus of human literature to use as the paint on its brush. If it can make a sentence that sounds Shakespearean after performing a statistical analysis of all sentences ever written by Shakespeare and using fancy averages and weightings of those sentences, how does that diminish the value of Shakespeare? In a wider sense, isn't that what's happening, but instead of using every sentence written by Shakespeare the goal is to use every sentence ever written?
That said, how GPT-3 and its descendants affect the market value of "literature" is... sorry I can't resist... a story yet to be written.
I'm uncomfortable with this statement because GPT-3 is in a sense copying or sourcing a massive corpus of human literature to use as the paint on its brush. If it can make a sentence that sounds Shakespearean after performing a statistical analysis of all sentences ever written by Shakespeare and using fancy averages and weightings of those sentences, how does that diminish the value of Shakespeare? In a wider sense, isn't that what's happening, but instead of using every sentence written by Shakespeare the goal is to use every sentence ever written?
That said, how GPT-3 and its descendants affect the market value of "literature" is... sorry I can't resist... a story yet to be written.