A GPT-2 written essay was submitted to the Economist's youth essay contest. One judge, who did not know the essay was written by an AI, gave this review: "It is strongly worded and backs up claims with evidence, but the idea is not incredibly original." economist.com/open-future/20…

How to respond to climate change, if you are an algorithm

We ran our youth essay question through an artificial-intelligence system to produce an essay

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Oct 2, 2019 · 3:45 PM UTC

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Turing test accomplished?
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Artificial mediocrity at the finest.
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Is it possible to train on academic papers and then try to write its own original paper. Might hit on something interesting.
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Stunned thoughtless.
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Good judgment. Very unimpressed by the essay. It does sound very human but is totally non-coherent and lacks any real substance.
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