This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI.

Last week, The Guardian ran an op-ed that made a lot of noise. Titled, “A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?” the article was allegedly written by GPT-3, OpenAI’s massive language model that has made a lot of noise in the past month.

Predictably, an article written by an artificial intelligence algorithm and aimed at convincing us humans that robots come in peace was bound to create a lot of hype. And that’s exactly what happened. Social media networks went abuzz with panic posts about AI writing better than humans, robots tricking us into trusting them, and other apocalyptic predictions. According to The Guardian’s page, the article was shared over 58,000 times as of this writing, which means it has probably been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

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