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I don’t know why I bother. I’ve been following advances in AI with interest and it’s getting scary good. A big story recently is about how uncannily good ChatGPT is at writing text that is essentially indistiguishable from what a person might write. So, I tried it by generating some text on a subject like yesterday’s post: what is JavaScript spread syntax? The ChatGPT response? JavaScript spread syntax is a way to expand an array or an object into a list of items or key-value pairs, respectively.

The scale of the GPT-3 neural network is stunning. There are some models that are even larger, but GPT-3 is pretty much state of the art. It’s a very interesting thing to play around with. If you sign up and get a free account, you can access the Playground which has some examples of different kinds of problems (e.g., chat, explain to a second grader, translation, etc.). There is also an API that is straightforward.