🔮 GPT3; China's dark forest; data-driven entertainment; lithium, nudity & mating++ #279

I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

The near future

🤩 What a tool. OpenAI’s GPT-3, the world’s most sophisticated natural language technology that has encapsulated many large corpora of human knowledge, is being put through its paces. Kevin Lacker runs GPT-3 through the Turing test. McKay Wrigley’s demo app, LearnFromAnyone, is another solid example. GPT-3 is an emerging ‘general purpose technology’ which, as it improves, will have major ramifications. I challenged EV members in Friday’s discussion to come up with industrial or business applications of this technology. What do you think? (See also, my overview of the short-term opportunity in natural language tools.)

🎥 The entertainment industry is increasingly relying on data to create new content at scale. Film-industry tech companies are arising as a category.

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Niall Ferguson channels Liu Cix…