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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2020 Augustrvz

About whether GPT-3 could 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.

An AI explains why it generated a given output, well enough to be safely used by medical professionals.

Has this happened?

Yes 27 (26%)Not sure 21 (20%)No 57 (54%)

Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.