Friday, 15 February 2019

OpenAI’s new language bot is scary good at predicting text – perhaps too good


California-based nonprofit artificial intelligence lab OpenAI has cautiously revealed the capabilities of its latest AI, which it’s calling GPT-2. The system can generate surprisingly convincing text to follow any sample you throw at it, like a news article headline, or the opening paragraph of a fictional tale, or a prompt for an essay on a specific topic. Here are some samples that OpenAI shared to illustrate what it can do: The organization has made its AI available to a few media outlets to test, and you can see some great and not-so-great examples in coverage from The Verge and The…

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http://bit.ly/2Ie9JC5 Abhimanyu Ghoshal February 15, 2019 at 03:00AM

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