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| 2020 || {{dts|February 17}} || || Coverage || AI reporter Karen Hao at ''MIT Technology Review'' publishes review on OpenAI titled ''The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world'', which suggests the company is surrendering its declaration to be transparent in order to outpace competitors.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/17/844721/ai-openai-moonshot-elon-musk-sam-altman-greg-brockman-messy-secretive-reality/|title = The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world. The AI moonshot was founded in the spirit of transparency. This is the inside story of how competitive pressure eroded that idealism.|last = Hao|first = Karen|publisher = Technology Review}}</ref> As a response, {{w|Elon Musk}} criticizes OpenAI, saying it lacks transparency.<ref name="Aaron">{{cite web |last1=Holmes |first1=Aaron |title=Elon Musk just criticized the artificial intelligence company he helped found — and said his confidence in the safety of its AI is 'not high' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-criticizes-openai-dario-amodei-artificial-intelligence-safety-2020-2 |website=businessinsider.com |accessdate=29 February 2020}}</ref> On his {{w|Twitter}} account, Musk writes "I have no control & only very limited insight into OpenAI. Confidence in Dario for safety is not high", alluding to OpenAI Vice President of Research Dario Amodei.<ref>{{cite web |title=Elon Musk |url=https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1229546206948462597 |website=twitter.com |accessdate=29 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 2020 || {{dts|May 28}} (release), June and July (discussion and exploration) || {{w|Natural-language generation}} || Software release || OpenAI releases the natural language model GPT-3 on GitHub<ref>{{cite web|url = http://github.com/openai/gpt-3|title = GPT-3 on GitHub|publisher = OpenAI|accessdate = July 19, 2020}}</ref> and uploads to the ArXiV the paper ''Language Models are Few-Shot Learners'' explaining how GPT-3 was trained and how it performs.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165|title = Language Models are Few-Shot Learners|date = May 28, 2020|accessdate = July 19, 2020}}</ref> Games, websites, and chatbots based on GPT-3 are created for exploratory purposes in the next two months (mostly by people unaffiliated with OpenAI), with a general takeaway that GPT-3 performs significantly better than GPT-2 and past natural language models,.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://twitter.com/nicklovescode/status/1283300424418619393|title = Nick Cammarata on Twitter: GPT-3 as therapist|date = July 14, 2020|accessdate = July 19, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3|title = GPT-3 Creative Fiction|date = June 19, 2020|accessdate = July 19, 2020|author = Gwern}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://medium.com/@aidungeon/ai-dungeon-dragon-model-upgrade-7e8ea579abfe|title = AI Dungeon: Dragon Model Upgrade. You can now play AI Dungeon with one of the most powerful AI models in the world.|last = Walton|first = Nick|date = July 14, 2020|accessdate = July 19, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1282676454690451457|title = Sharif Shameem on Twitter: With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want, and it generates the JSX code for you.|date = July 13, 2020|accessdate = July 19, 2020|publisher = Twitter|last = Shameem|first = Sharif}}</ref> but commentators Commentators also note many weaknesses in areas like arithmetic, multi-step logical reasoning, inability to identify that a question is nonsense, inability to identify that it does not know the answer to a question, and picking up of racist and sexist contnt content when traind trained on corpuses that contain some such content.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.html|title = Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test|last = Lacker|first = Kevin|date = July 6, 2020|accessdate = July 19, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://minimaxir.com/2020/07/gpt3-expectations/|title = Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API|date = July 18, 2020|accessdate = July 19, 2020|last = Woolf|first = Max}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://delian.substack.com/p/quick-thoughts-on-gpt3|title = Quick thoughts on GPT3|date = July 17, 2020|accessdate = July 19, 2020|last = Asparouhov|first = Delian}}</ref>
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