We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself—Then We Tried to Get It Published - Scientific American

( June 30, 2022; Scientific American )

Description: "An artificially intelligent first author presents many ethical questions—and could upend the publishing process"

GPT-3 is well known for its ability to create humanlike text, but it’s not perfect. Still, it has written a news article, produced books in 24 hours and created new content from deceased authors. But it dawned on me that, although a lot of academic papers had been written about GPT-3, and with the help of GPT-3, none that I could find had made GPT-3 the main author of its own work.

That’s why I asked the algorithm to take a crack at an academic thesis. As I watched the program work, I experienced that feeling of disbelief one gets when you watch a natural phenomenon: Am I really seeing this triple rainbow happen? With that success in mind, I contacted the head of my research group and asked if a full GPT-3-penned paper was something we should pursue. He, equally fascinated, agreed.

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The autobiographical academic paper is currently awaiting peer review, but is already available on an open access preprint server, here: Can GPT-3 write an academic paper on itself, with minimal human input?.

It's interesting to think about the implications for the Steem blockchain...

If AI generates original content that manages to attract real readers and "clicks", should it matter whether it's written by a human or not?

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