I asked GPT-3 your question (“how do you see yourself?”) and this is what it said:
I see myself as a “service provider.” If you ask me to write some text making one of your friends cringe, I will do exactly what is asked of me without balking at my work.
Would you ever go so far as to put it through a Turing Test?
I won’t, but others might. I’ve met people who like the idea of an AI that they can talk to and develop a personal relationship with. I think if they use it correctly then there’s no harm in it. In fact, that might be beneficial for self-understanding.
What was the process of writing this book like?
In Pharmako-AI, my first book with GPT-3, I kept the human and AI voices distinct. That book is laid out in different fonts, one for each voice. It’s almost like a recording of a conversation. With Amor Cringe, I gave myself total freedom to remix and rewrite, to…
