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No, really, it can. I'll give some examples. These are all via GPT-3, which I can access from the OpenAI api or online playground.

1. Summarizing papers:

Here are some examples of paper summaries: https://twitter.com/unboxresearch

I wrote the software that uses GPT-3 to produce those. You can look at the papers to judge the accuracy for yourself.

2. Solve math problems:

What is the area of a circle with radius 2?

The area of a circle with radius 2 is 4π.

3. Generate wiki articles:

Write the first paragraph of a wiki article about tigers.

Tigers are the largest members of the cat family. They are apex predators, primarily preying on ungulates such as deer and bovids. They are territorial and generally solitary but social animals, often requiring large contiguous areas of habitat that support their prey requirements. This, coupled with the fact that they are indigenous to some of the more densely populated places on Earth, has caused significant conflicts with humans.

4. Write scientific code:

Write a matlab function to plot the largest three singular values of a matrix.

function plotLargestSingularValues(A)

s = svd(A);

plot(s(1:3));

I'm not trying the others because I think they're more specific to Galactica.

The models, including GPT-3, absolutely do make mistakes. We are in the first few years of these capabilities existing at this level, so much research is needed before the results are consistently good. In my experience, though, GPT-3 is extremely useful and reliable for many use cases. (Building and using tools like this is part of my career.)



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