OpenAI’s new language bot is scary good at predicting text – perhaps too good

California-based nonprofit artificial intelligence lab OpenAI has cautiously revealed the capabilities of its latest AI, which it’s calling GPT-2. The system can generate surprisingly convincing text to follow any sample you throw at it, like a news article headline, or the opening paragraph of a fictional tale, or a prompt for an essay on a specific topic. Here are some samples that OpenAI shared to illustrate what it can do: The organization has made its AI available to a few media outl