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December 18, 2020

10 tech luminaries in conversation (as imagined by GPT-3)

We asked GPT-3, OpenAI's powerful new language generator, to imagine conversations between 10 tech leaders.


John Thornhill

8 min read

GPT-3 is a scarily powerful language generation model developed by OpenAI, the San Francisco research company, that has made a big splash in the artificial intelligence world this year.

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John Thornhill

John Thornhill is Sifted’s editorial director and cofounder. He is also innovation editor of the Financial Times, and tweets from @johnthornhillft

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