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The lesson is that art is much less profound than previously thought. GPT-3 is basically autocomplete with a really big training set.

The main lack is a tie to the real world. If you generated, say, an auto repair manual with GPT-3, it would read well, but would not match the proper procedures for the car.

That might be fixable. The next level would be a system that watches someone doing a task, then generates a how-to guide.




As opposed to the artist that dropped buckets of paint from a bridge onto a canvas and called it abstract art.

Since time began, it's all in the users appreciation or lack there of.

Art is anything and everything if you boil it down.

But, an artist with talent and a message....




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