Ask HN: How can GPT-3 help humanity fight Covid-19?

> After watching all those amazing videos of GPT-3

Those 'amazing' GPT-3 videos only gloss over the good side of what GPT-3 can do given an input. They'll never tell you the number of times they cherry picked and edited the output or the mistakes it makes nor can GPT-3 itself reason of why it has generated that output or chosen those words in the sentences it generates.

If a black box neural network like GPT-3 still can't explain itself, then it cannot possibly safely help "humanity fight COVID-19" or any disease if you show the generated results to a medical professional.

So beware the hype brigade.

GPT-3 is just a language model. You have to give it some information to work with. Maybe it could convert statistics or study results into layman's terms?

It was trained on data prior to October 2019, so it can't help with COVID-19.

I guess it can keep some people indoors and occupied...

Help as in keep people entertained, or help as in solve some medical research question?

It can't. Get a life.