What Is GPT-3 and How Does It Work?

Understanding the technology powering the top AI-assisted tools

Richie Crowley
4 min readJan 5, 2023
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GPT-3 (short for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3”) is a language generation model developed by OpenAI. OpenAI is the research organization promoting and developing friendly artificial intelligence in ways most likely to benefit humanity as a whole.

Or so it told me…

A language generation model, like GPT-3, is a type of artificial intelligence that is able to generate natural language text. The goal of a language generation model is to produce text that is coherent, grammatically correct, and reads like it was written by a human. Language generation models can be used for a wide range of applications, including generating news articles, stories, and poems, as well as performing language tasks such as translation, summarization, and question answering.

Language generation models, like GPT-3, are trained on large datasets of text and use machine learning techniques to predict the next word or sequence of words in a given piece of text.

Machine learning is a method of teaching computers to learn and make decisions on their own, without being explicitly programmed.

There are various techniques that can be used in machine learning, including Supervised…

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Richie Crowley

Slowly building an audience by publishing original thoughts and ideas only when I have something of quality to say.