Good to know what the AI thinks of me.

GPT-3 is the massive neural net that can adopt a persona from a few initial text prompts. It pre-trained on many billion words from the web. This includes proper names, like mine, as I just found out...
The ghost in Roko’s Basilisk machine.
Having spent a fair bit of time with @SamHarrisOrg, from philosophy to atheism to AI, I must say, they did a good job here.

GPT-3 cost ~$15 million to train with an 8-yr common crawl of the Internet (60%), Reddit-sourced text (22%), a corpus of books (15%) and Wikipedia (3%).
Harari's AI nails it, and in his voice.

OpenAI's GPT-3 currently generates ~4.5 billion words per day. The NYT review called GPT-3 "amazing", "spooky", "humbling", and "more than a little terrifying."

You can talk with him here: https://www.typical.me/skin/bobbyjaros/yuval-noah-harari
OpenAI's GPT-3 persona prompt:
"Dr. Seuss is the children's book author.
From here to there,
Funny things are everywhere!"

While there is a waiting list to access the API, you can chat with several AI personas or create your own (after a quick sign-in) at https://typical.me/skins 
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