
Ask HN: Let's talk gpt-3 hype. overblown or justified? - hejja
I&#x27;ve counted between 3-5 GPT posts on the front page all today and yesterday<p>Not to mention 74% of my twitter feed.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I was at peak hype. Top 10% of gpt-3 hypebeasts.<p>But now I&#x27;m thinking: &quot;it&#x27;s good, but what are the practical use cases that is effectively a babbling machine&quot;<p>In other words if it&#x27;s 95% believable, with the amount of nuance required for high skilled use cases or jobs, well, that&#x27;s still not enough.<p>Your thoughts?
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forgotmypw17
In terms of human development, publicly available and disclosed machine
intelligence has reached what in human child development would be considered a
major new milestone.

Previously, Eliza and the likes could only mimic basic speech construction,
with increasing levels of correctness.

Now, GPT-3 can mimic meaning and understading, rather convincingly. Its
mistakes are akin to a child's naive questions.

I would put its equivalent human age at about 3-5 years old. Sometimes 5-year-
olds can come up with nonsense, and sometimes you have an "out of the mouths
of babes" moment.

That's really huge, IMO.

