Conversations with an AI – part 4

In part 1 of this exploration I introduced a fantastical story by the Polish writer Stanislaw Lem. It describes how an inventor called Trurl constructs an electronic bard — a poetry-writing machine — and invites his arch-rival, Klapaucius to set it a challenge. At...

Conversations with an AI – part 3

So I have been trying to persuade GPT-3 (an artificial intelligence) to write poetry.Sorry about the wait, by the way, but it comes with the territory. Omnivorism being essentially all about the pursuit of a multiplicity of interests, there is  always the risk I...

Conversations with an AI – part 1

You may have heard about GPT-3, an artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by the San Francisco based company, OpenAI. Technically speaking, GPT-3 is a text-based autoregressive language model that has been trained by being exposed to an enormous volume of...