Kasper Jordaens

OpenAI reached out to researchers and industry professionals, primarily with expertise in bias, disinformation, image generation, explicit content, and media studies, to help us gain a more robust understanding of the DALL·E 2 Preview and the risk areas of potential deployment plans. Participants in the red team were chosen based on areas of prior ... See more

GPT-3 raises many philosophical questions. Some are ethical. Should we develop and deploy GPT-3, given that it has many biases from its training, it may displace human workers, it can be used for deception, and it could lead to AGI? I’ll focus on some issues in the philosophy of mind. Is GPT-3 really intelligent, and in what sense? Is it conscious?... See more

As for consciousness, I am open to the idea that a worm with 302 neurons is conscious, so I am open to the idea that GPT-3 with 175 billion parameters is conscious too. I would expect any consciousness to be far simpler than ours, but much depends on just what sort of processing is going on among those 175 billion parameters.

DALL·E 2 currently has a very limited ability to render legible text. When it does, text may sometimes be nonsensical and could be misinterpreted. It’s important to track this capability as it develops, as image generative models may eventually develop novel text generation capabilities via rendering text.

Understanding is beyond GPT-3’s reach because understanding cannot occur in an isolated behavior, no matter how clever. Understanding is not an act but a labor. Labor is entirely irrelevant to a computational model that has no history or trajectory; a tool that endlessly simulates meaning anew from a pool of data untethered to its previous efforts.... See more

GPT-3 has been trained on us—on a lot of things that we have said and written—and ends up reproducing just that, racial and gender bias included.

quote by GPT3 itself:

When you send query text to GPT-3, you aren’t communing with a unique digital soul. But you are coming as close as anyone ever has to literally speaking to the zeitgeist.