Now, trust me when I say this, I am the only author of this blog post. But there may soon be a time when blog posts, stories, papers, books can be co-authored by a human and AI. Humans have always been fascinated of being able to talk to computers and make computers intelligent. The Turing test, perhaps the most popular test of an AI’s abilities to exhibit intelligence through the form of maintaining and even guiding a conversation similar to that of a human. This has pushed scientists to develop large language models for AI to understand and produce AI-generated audio or texts. Google along with other tech giants has been investing tremendously in this space, and regularly in its yearly keynotes at Google I/O, reveals new developments in language models, which enables AI to hold increasingly complex conversations and simulate real human-like responses. These advances are also visible in daily routines, such as suggested replies in Gmail or autocomplete in iMessage.
This technology was implemented in a text-based RPG game AI Dungeon. So, rather than choosing from pre-determined list or responses, the AI in the game helps build the world around the actions that you choose to do. These generated responses from the game can lead to infinite possible directions from swords and sorcery to cyberpunk adventures.
This can have applications for even script writing and books. Suppose the author has a few themes in mind, which they can just feed into the algorithm, and the output is a potential script or text which the Author can build on or implement into their work. Companies have been rapidly scaling these programs by adding more data and computing power, with the size of the language models being measured in the number of parameters/ connections they have within their networks. OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company’s GPT-3 model is one of the largest models trained with 175 billion parameters. This year Google revealed that their language model was trained with 1.6 trillion parameters. Such level of sophistication has helped improve AI’s ability to comprehend and make compelling conversations.
A company called Writesonic offers AI powered writing tools which can even write an entire blog post. There are always concerns on how such developments can take away jobs, but I believe that AI in this form, is most effective when used in collaboration with the author. The author remains the primary source of ideas, but the AI can help turn those ideas into exciting new dialogues, scripts, blogs which can help launch new adventurous franchises like never before. Someday the algorithm can be so trivial that a better quality of this blog post can be written by an AI instead of me.
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