The results from machine learning have been getting better and better

and the results seen so far from OpenAI'sGPT-3 model look stunninglygood. But unlike GPT-2 (which waspublicly released under a free license), so farGPT-3 is accessible via API-only.What's the reasoning and possible impact of that decision?For that matter, what kind of impacts could machine learning advancementsmake on FOSS, programming in general, art production, and civic society?

Links:

• The OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin article

  • The quoted comment on Hacker News
• Auto-generation of legalese and
  auto-web-design GPT-3 demos
• GPT-2
• GPT-3's API and FAQ page
• Tensorflow and PyTorch
• (Artificial) neural networks and machine learning
• https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
• Google's Deepmind and Agent57 (be sure to watch the Agent57 videos, they're's impressive)
• Mozilla's Common Voice project
• AlphaGo
• Bayesian spam filters;
  see also Paul Graham's highly influential
  a plan for spam writeup
• Markov chains
  (we miss you, X11R5...)
• The Postmodernist Essay Generator
• Postmodernism
• Neural networks' difficulties in explaining "why they did that"
  and an overview of attempts to make things better: An Overview of Interpretability of Machine Learning
• Chris had a
  conversation with Gerald Sussman about AI that was related to the above and influential on them.
  "If an AI driven car drives off the side of the road, I want to
  know why it did that. I could take the software developer to
  court, but I would much rather take the AI to court."
• The Propagator Model (by Alexey Radul and Gerald Jay Sussman, largely):
  Revised Report on the Propagator Model.
  See also: We Really Don't Know How to Compute!
• Three Panel Soul's
  Recursion comic
  (cut from this episode, but we also
  originally mentioned their
  Techics comic which
  is definitely relevant though)
• Surrealism,
  Abstract Expressionism,
  Impressionism,
  and the Realism movement
  (Obviously there's also a lot more to say about these art movements than just
  lumping them as a reaction to photography but... only so much time on an
  episode.)
• AI Dungeon 2 (nonfree, though you can play it in your browser)
• Episode of Ludology about
  procedural narrative generation
• Implicit Bias and the Teaching of Writing

• Machine learning's tendency to inherit biases

  • Rise of the racist robots -- how AI is learning all our worst impulses
  • Machine bias
    (and its use in deciding court cases)
  • Google's Vision AI producing racist results
  • When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind
    (Content warning: this is due to an extremely harmful form of synthesized
    racism from the biases in the datasets Google has used)
  • Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.
• Discovering Reinforcement Learning Algorithms and the subdiscipline of
  Learning to Learn
• Hayo Miazaki's criticism of an AI demonstration not considering its impact