Researcher Almira Osmanovic Thunström said afterwards that she was in awe as the text began to take shape. In front of her was what she called a “pretty good” research introduction that GPT-3 wrote for itself. After the successful experiment, Thunström, a Swedish researcher at the University of Gothenburg, attempted to take an entire research paper from GPT-3 and publish it in a peer-reviewed academic journal. The question was: Can one publish a document from a non-human source? Thunström wrote about the experiment in Scientific American, noting that the process of issuing GPT-3 raised a number of legal and ethical questions. “All we know is that we opened a portal,” Thunstrom wrote. “We just hope we haven’t opened Pandora’s box.” After GPT-3 completed its scientific work in just 2 hours, Thunström began the process of submitting the work and had to ask the algorithm if it consented to publication. “Answer: Yes,” Thunstrom wrote. “Slightly sweaty and relieved (if he said no, my conscience wouldn’t allow me to go any further), I checked the box for ‘Yes’.” He also asked if it had a conflict of interest, to which the algorithm replied “no”, and Thunström wrote that the authors began to treat GPT-3 as a sentient being, even though it was not. “Academic publishing may have to accommodate a future of AI-based manuscripts, and the value of a human researcher’s publication record may change if something insensitive can take credit for some of their work,” Thunström wrote. The story continues AI sentience became a topic of discussion in June after a Google engineer claimed that an AI chat technology called LaMBDA had become sentient and had even asked to hire a lawyer for itself. Experts said, however, that the technology has not yet progressed to the level of creating human-like machines. In an email to Insider, Thunström said the experiment had positive effects in the AI ​​community and that other scientists are trying to replicate the experiment’s results. Those running similar experiments are finding that GPT-3 can write on all subjects, he said. “That was our goal,” Thunström said, “to awaken multi-layered discussions about the role of artificial intelligence in academic publishing.” Read the original article on Insider