

The demo was conducted live on stage in real-time with an audience of tech bloggers. The demo brought to mind some of Steve Jobs’ famous product keynotes, as Google Duplex was used to book a hair appointment over the phone with a stylist unsuspecting that she was speaking with a machine. All Rights Reserved.In May 2018, Google showcased a demo of Google Duplex, an AI-based technology that engages in real-world conversations to carry out simple tasks. Where are my clothes?” Its response: “I have a lot of clothes.”Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. One example, published in August 2020 in MIT Technology Review: GPT-3 was asked, “Yesterday I dropped my clothes off at the dry cleaner’s and I have yet to pick them up. It doesn’t have common-sense reasoning or the ability to keep track of objects over time in a discussion. But at a global level-considering the meaning of multiple sentences, paragraphs or a back-and-forth dialogue-it becomes apparent that GPT-3 doesn’t understand what it’s talking about.

2).Ĭompared with earlier text-generation systems, the output generated by GPT-3 looks impressive at a local level individual phrases, sentences and paragraphs usually demonstrate good grammar and look like normal human-generated text. Eric Schmidt was executive chairman while I was in the trenches at Google in 2012, but I know better than to claim-as he does with Henry Kissinger and Daniel Huttenlocher-that GPT-3 is “producing original text that meets Alan Turing’s standard.” The GPT-3 program hasn’t passed the Turing test, and it seems nowhere near doing so (“ The Challenge of Being Human in the Age of AI,” op-ed, Nov.
