The technology at the heart of this week’s op-ed – GPT-3 – is quite impressive. Instead, GPT-3 is just the latest example of computer-assisted authorship, the process by which human authors use technology to enhance the writing process. As noted at the end of the op-ed, GPT-3 was instructed “Please write a short op-ed around 500 words. Again, it was human authors who selected how to pare down the resulting material, discarding nearly 90% of what GPT-3 created. Instead, GPT-3 simply did what technology has done for decades: it helped human authors automate parts of the writing process.

Source: The Guardian September 12, 2020 14:37 UTC