GPT-3

GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) is an artificial intelligence system created by OpenAI in 2020. Here are some key facts about GPT-3:

It is the third generation model in the GPT series and currently the most advanced language model.
GPT-3 uses the transformer architecture like previous models but is massively scaled up with 175 billion parameters, over 100 times larger than GPT-2.
It was trained on a huge internet text dataset of over 499 billion tokens.
The sheer size of GPT-3 allows it to perform extremely well on many natural language processing tasks with zero to few shot learning.
GPT-3 exhibits state-of-the-art language generation capabilities, often indistinguishable from human written text.
It can answer questions, translate text, summarize passages, generate code, solve word puzzles and more based on example prompts.
GPT-3 powers applications that can chat, compose content, answer queries and generate human-like text automatically.
It has commercial API access but concerns remain about potential misuse of its advanced text generation.
GPT-3 faces challenges in reasoning, common sense and factual consistency in long text generation.
Future iterations aim to address these issues and move towards artificial general intelligence.

GPT-3 demonstrates the stunning progress of language models towards ever-increasing capabilities through scaling up model size and data.