Five AI Products You Can Build With GPT-3 Today

AI critics say that the technology is all hype. They are wrong. I’ll show five categories of products that are a) currently possible, and b) I am extremely excited to use, hopefully soon. 

I’ve become familiar with what GPT-3 is capable of by building Lex. I spend a lot of time writing prompts, and seeing what it gets right and what its limits are. It reminds me of when the iPhone first came out: if you paid attention, it was easy to see that transformative new product experiences would inevitably emerge. It’s hard to see exactly what those will be. Still, it’s fun to guess :)

So here are some of the new products that I predict will emerge thanks to AI. None of the ideas are dependent on technical advances—they could all be built today using GPT-3.

1. The infinite article

How much of your time do you spend scrolling through feeds and scanning articles? If you’re like me, it represents a decent chunk of your time. What if you could hire someone to do this work for you and compile a daily briefing? What if you could ask them questions and prod them to go deeper on the topics that interest you, and skip over anything that isn’t worth your time?

I would love this! I can’t wait for someone to build it. I presented this idea initially in September of last year. At the time I thought it was something that was years in the future. Now, I’m convinced you could build it today.

When I first thought of the idea I assumed the best you could do is to build a personalized list of articles based on a user’s Twitter history, the email newsletters they subscribe to, or any other data you can gather about the user. And I thought the best the AI could do is offer a short summary. I didn’t think it was possible to allow users to ask questions and have the AI give accurate, interesting answers.

I was wrong. Since then, a few things have caused me to update my thinking.