A college student from the University of California, Berkeley, created a blog post about productivity using OpenAI’s GPT-3 text generator. Then, he uploaded it to Hacker News, where it was upvoted until it became one of the site’s top articles.
OpenAI’s GPT-3 text generator uses deep learning to produce content. It’s so powerful, it is currently in closed-beta– this means it can only be accessed by invited users. The college student gained access through a friend in the Ph.D. program.
Earlier versions of OpenAI’s text generator wasn’t immediately released to the public due to the potential to create large amounts of fake news. It used data from Reddit to learn how to develop the human-like text.
What kind of story can we create out of this? I’m a sucker for dystopian, but for some reason, I think this could be more of a coming of age story. Something we might find in Amazon’s “Electric Dreams.”
One family lives among technology. They have AI assistants and consume AI-generated content. A teenager growing up in this system has never had a reason to question anything she’s been told.
Until she meets another girl who comes from a very different background. The other family lives as off-the-grid as possible. They are farmers. Not quite Amish, but purposefully skeptical. They read classic literature. In this story world, everyone has access to all knowledge material. Still, many choose to consume the content generated for them.
A problem arises when the teen who grew up with AI realizes there is a shift in perception against the type of people who shun high-technology. At this point, she knows about the girl, but they aren’t close. Those around her pretend the attitude has been there all along, a sentiment she rejects.
She spends more time learning about her friend’s culture. Then, disaster strikes. A group of anti-tech terrorists destroys a power grid. It isn’t useful in doing anything other than creating resentment.
The first book ends when the two decide to leave both their ways of life behind.
Book two would be a classic journey story, filled with episodic encounters.
Book three would be the establishment of a semi-integrated AI with human overseers.
Book four would go into a scenario of the human overseers try and destroy the community from the inside.
Parable of the Sower vibes, but with AI/perception-controlling technology.
