This is a very worn quote, but it applies so much to this nonsense:
> There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
— Richard P. Feynman
While Feynman talked about performing computation you didn't need just to see if would yield the expected result, here GPT-3 outputs a somewhat expected result, and then we have an entire reflection on what it means or implies, while the whole purpose of something like GPT-3 is to output the most meaningless expected result for any kind of input.
There is some kind of fun in it, meaningless fun, the best kind for some, and the best way to waste time, but I can't see that thread without making sure it's said: GPT-3 either outputs for wasted fun or boring but useful expected result, never for meaningful content to be awed at.
> There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
— Richard P. Feynman
While Feynman talked about performing computation you didn't need just to see if would yield the expected result, here GPT-3 outputs a somewhat expected result, and then we have an entire reflection on what it means or implies, while the whole purpose of something like GPT-3 is to output the most meaningless expected result for any kind of input.
There is some kind of fun in it, meaningless fun, the best kind for some, and the best way to waste time, but I can't see that thread without making sure it's said: GPT-3 either outputs for wasted fun or boring but useful expected result, never for meaningful content to be awed at.