{"id":30363,"date":"2022-04-18T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/steven-johnson-on-the-current-state-of-a.i.-and-language#id31651"},"modified":"2022-04-18T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:02:00","slug":"steven-johnson-with-a-long-assessment-of-the-current-state-of-a-i-and-language-the-illusion-has-gotten-very-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/steven-johnson-with-a-long-assessment-of-the-current-state-of-a-i-and-language-the-illusion-has-gotten-very-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Johnson with a long assessment of the current state of A.I. and language. (The illusion has gotten very good.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&lsquo;Give me a list of all the ingredients in Bolognese sauce,&rsquo;&rsquo; &lsquo;&lsquo;Write a poem about a French coastal village in the style of John Ashbery,&rsquo;&rsquo; &lsquo;&lsquo;Explain the Big Bang in language that an 8-year-old will understand.&rsquo;&rsquo; The first few times I fed GPT-3 prompts of this ilk, I felt a genuine shiver run down my spine.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/15\/magazine\/ai-language.html\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The New York Times Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/steven-johnson-on-the-current-state-of-a.i.-and-language\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        &lsquo;Give me a list of all the ingredients in Bolognese sauce,&rsquo;&rsquo; &lsquo;&lsquo;Write a poem about a French coastal village in the style of John Ashbery,&rsquo;&rsquo; &lsquo;&lsquo;Explain the Big Bang in la&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30381,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30363\/revisions\/30381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}