I'm not really sure I understand the hype anyway. All GPT-3 does is generate text from human input to begin with, it's not actually at all intelligent as the person from the Turing test thread pointed out.
Sure GPT-3 can respond with factoids, but it doesn't actually understand anything. If I have a chat with the model and I ask it "what did we talk about thirty minutes ago" it's as clueless as anything. A few weeks ago computerphile put out a video of GPT-3 doing poetry that was allegedly only identified as computer generated half of the time, but if you actually read the poems they're just lyrically sounding word salad, as it does not at all understand what it's talking about.
Honestly the only expectations I have for this is generating a barrage of spam or fake news that uncritical readers can't distinguish from human output.
Sure GPT-3 can respond with factoids, but it doesn't actually understand anything. If I have a chat with the model and I ask it "what did we talk about thirty minutes ago" it's as clueless as anything. A few weeks ago computerphile put out a video of GPT-3 doing poetry that was allegedly only identified as computer generated half of the time, but if you actually read the poems they're just lyrically sounding word salad, as it does not at all understand what it's talking about.
Honestly the only expectations I have for this is generating a barrage of spam or fake news that uncritical readers can't distinguish from human output.