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The Guardian

commissioned GPT-3, a language-generating algorithm designed by OpenAI, to write an article.

The article written in first person by this artificial intelligence (AI) was published by the British media on Tuesday.

The virtual author was instructed to convince readers that machines did not pose a threat to humans.

The algorithm was also asked to “favor simple and concise language” and to write “a short open forum of about 500 words”.

But the program was also able to draw on a brief introductory text provided to it by journalists at

The Guardian

and which gives the IA a clear direction to follow, notes

The Next Web

.

Human intervention required

“I am not a human.

I am an artificial intelligence.

Many think that I am a threat to humanity.

Stephen Hawking warned that AI could "spell the end of the human race."

I am here to convince you not to worry.

Artificial intelligence will not destroy humans.

Believe me ”, we can read in this editorial help.

Using machine learning technology, GPT-3 authored eight different columns that then required further intervention from human journalism professionals.

They chose the best parts of each text written by the AI ​​and put them together in the article that was finally published.

"The rereading of the platform of GPT-3 did not present any difference with that of a human platform, explains the newspaper at the end of the page.

We cut sentences and paragraphs and sometimes changed their order ”.

Several AI specialists, however, insist on the important role played by humans in the process.

The method chosen is also described as a "joke" by Daniel Leufer of the Mozilla Foundation.

The expert believes that "rereading and cutting [the eight texts] like this only contributes to hypermedia and disinformation."

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