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A language generation program's ability to write articles, produce code and compose poetry has wowed scientists

  • Written by Prasenjit Mitra, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
A language generation program's ability to write articles, produce code and compose poetry has wowed scientistsGPT-3 is 10 times more complex than its predecessor.antoniokhr/iStock via Getty Images

Seven years ago, my student and I at Penn State built a bot to write a Wikipedia article on Bengali Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s play “Chitra.” First it culled information about “Chitra” from the internet. Then it looked at...

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