The 2022 theme for International Women’s Day is #BreakTheBias. With that in mind, I decided to do a little experiment to see what GPT-3 can show us about the gender bias that’s built into our language.

Let’s start with a quick overview of GPT-3, in case you don’t spend as much time as I do having conversations with a machine: Basically, it’s an AI trained on pretty much every word written online to generate conversational language that sounds remarkably human.

Before I get into the part where I depress you, I want to be clear: GPT-3 is a tremendous achievement. An enormously big deal that will have far-ranging implications. That’s why it’s important that we don’t build it on a rotten foundation.

And the rotten foundation? That’s us. Read More