Nearly any person with a primary education can do a reasonable job of predicting possible completions of a sentence. But writing documents and code, which GPT-3 can do, requires sophisticated skills that humans spend years developing in higher education. Generative models, then, are beginning to challenge our belief that tasks such as sentence completion are distinct from, and simpler than, writing. As generative models improve, AI stands to lead to new perceptions of both the uniqueness and the relative value of human capabilities. Where will that leave us?
