


If you put two sample texts like these side by side, and if we can't confidently tell which one is written by AI and which by human, the human is going to be out of a job.” User “incrementality” remarked: “AI definitely poses risk for a lot of jobs. The song also reignited the perennial debate on whether such AI technology poses a threat to jobs that have traditionally been done by humans. Others gave their notes on how the song could be improved, such as by choosing words that rhyme and sprinkling the word “together” a number of times to emulate National Day songs of the past. “DrCalFun” commented: “(There) will come a time where the lyrics and song are composed by engineers from GovTech using OpenAI technology (and) sung by our robot ambassador, Singabot.” User “Syumie” wrote: “Let this AI write the next (National Day) song, it’s awesome.” Redditors marvelled at the song lyrics, claiming that they were better than that of National Day songs from recent years. The bridge, however, carried a more hopeful tone, rallying people to keep striving for a better future and to "keep running in the Singaporean rat race" despite the challenges that come their way. It also claimed that it is getting hard for Singaporeans to "keep up the fight" due to the continuously rising cost of living. Verse two complained about the long hours one has to work "day and night" just to make ends meet. It said that it is hard to know what the future holds with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) increase "on the horizon". The chorus then emphasised that "the rat race is real" and is taking a toll on people's lives. It added that Singaporeans are trying to get ahead but doing so gets "harder every day".

Writing the lyrics in a collective voice, GPT-3 started off by lamenting over Singapore's seemingly never-ending rat race. The tool was created by OpenAI, a research business co-founded by tech mogul Elon Musk. GPT-3 can create anything that has a language structure including answering questions, writing essays, producing poetry, translating languages and even creating computer code. GPT-3 stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 and is the third version of a language prediction model that utilises machine learning to create human-like text. The song - complete with two verses, a chorus and a bridge - was posted to the discussion forum on Tuesday (Dec 6) by user "subzephyr" who had asked GPT-3 to produce a song on the topic. Redditors were recently impressed and amused by a musical song written by an AI-powered application called GPT-3 about the "Singaporean rat race". SINGAPORE - A national day song written by artificial intelligence (AI) may just become a reality in the not-so-distant future.
