And GPT-3 is already old news. Progress has been rapid and extensive (e.g. Codex, Blender Bot, AlphaFold, ruDALL-E, NÜWA, EfficientZero...).

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Normies who only read what prestigious newspapers and journals highlight for them won't realize the importance of developments like GPT-3 before the nanobots start converting the hemoglobin in their arteries into computronium.
If you want to know about important or interesting developments and ideas before they go mainstream you need to be comfortable with noise in the form of crazy and wrong ideas and follow nonconformists cranks.
P.S. When it comes to artificial intelligence, always remember the following:

“Do not look at where we are. Look at where we will be two more papers down the line.”
— Károly Zsolnai-Fehér
But don’t get the wrong impression. It’s not just artificial intelligence, mind you: We now got 3D printed rocket companies. Biotechnology is showing enormous potential.
There are over 130 longevity biotechnology companies and over 50 anti-aging drugs in clinical trials in humans. We’ve got drugs that can reverse age-related mental decline within days in mice. And we also seem to be in the midst of a neurotech revolution.
Very few people seem to realize that we’re truly living in a world that would have been considered science fiction just 20 years ago and that revolutionary, transformative progress might be only a few papers away.

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