First they came for …
Posts that related to the general topic of GPT-3 and related systems
Thanks to John Naughton’s Guardian column (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/07/chatgpt-bot-excel-ai-chatbot-tech) I picked up this illuminating paper – a clear and confident perspective on how LLMs like GPT work (“next token predictors”!).
Download here: Murray Shanahan, 2022, ‘Talking about Large Language Models’, https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03551
An interesting list of other current AI tools that aren’t GPT!
https://aisupremacy.substack.com/p/top-ai-powered-tools-not-named-chatgpt
Sniffing out GPT
An app that measures “burstiness” and “perplexity” to detect a GPT source.
However,
” … it does not work well with essays written by good writers. It false flagged so many essays as AI-written.”
“…for educators, the technology opens the door to widespread cheating on homework and take-home assignments, and many have been scrambling to rethink the nature of assessment or otherwise discourage students using the tool.”
“… ChatGPT is capable of passing — or at least nearly passing — the US medical licensing exams, according to researchers in the US who put it to the test.”