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Angles and VCs are getting way too excited watching twitter GPT-3 demos. Just wait until they discover the magic of prolog.

The AI aspect of this demo is really just NLP. The heuristics taught to GPT-3 could just as easily be encoded in a database.

There would be a lot less magic if these demos showed the prompt they used to prime GPT-3.

Isn't that the exciting part? That your average literate person can do things that only a programmer could do previously.

Can you give some examples? Most of the fancy demos I have seen would require complex prompts.

Perhaps I've been fooled. I assumed the priming was also just casual nlp.

This was precisely the promise of 1980s expert systems