It’s not self driven at all. It has no opinions itself, it’s responding to its “masters” inputs and pulling crap from a very large database.

Humans are self motivated and driven by goals and desires we create ourselves and change on a whim. We daydream and imagine things which don’t exist not because we are being ordered to by a human operator.

GPT-3 doesn’t do anything by itself. It’s just a big lookup table that does nothing unless a human tells it to.

You just need to put it inside a for loop to run continuously. Or put them on wheels to get prompted by the environment[1]. Or give them a game to play[2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07207

[2] https://www.deepmind.com/publications/a-generalist-agent