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How does OpenAI's latest language model, GPT-3, compare to previous innovations?

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How should we think about OpenAI’s new language model, GPT-3?

(For background on GPT-3, please read my essay AI & the Word, EV#277 on massive language models and EV#278 on some recent demos using GPT-3.)

The model, released with a very simple API tha…