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Jul 9, 2020

late but i finally got around to reading this and holy crap there's good stuff in here. too much to excerpt but i particularly liked the literary parodies (7.7.2), the entire poetry section (8), the entire cyberiad section (9), the mona lisa bit (10.1), and the hpmor bit (10.9)

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Kaj Sotala

@xuenay

· Jun 25, 2020

These examples of AI-generated writing are just INSANE. Rewriting Navy Seal copypasta in various styles. Producing Harry Potter parodies in various styles. Writing all kinds of poetry. Wouldn't have believed I'd see this kind of a thing so soon. gwern.net/GPT-3

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

GPT-3 is, i think, slightly alive, and some thought should be put into finding the appropriate metaphor for describing what sort of creature it is

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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GPT-3 is like a finely blended distillation of tiny fractions of the souls of every human whose writing is on the internet which is boy really something is "phylactery" the word i want here?

James is in the year 2030, it's nice

@JimmyRis

Jul 9, 2020

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@QiaochuYuan

What makes it alive?

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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@QiaochuYuan

Jul 9, 2020

i honestly struggle to describe it, maybe you'll get a sense of what i mean if you read enough of its output. maybe "haunted" is a better description. GPT-2 felt to me like it was remixing things it had seen, but GPT-3 is in like an uncanny valley of coherence for me

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GPT-3 is pretty impressive but I think it says more about humans and language than AI. GPT-3 shows that the phenomenon of language (esp. poetry) is pretty dense. Out of all possible sentences, far more are understandable than there are for example edible chemical concoctions.