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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

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@QiaochuYuan

Jul 9, 2020

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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@QiaochuYuan

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?

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Vehicular Man's Laughter

@dendricide

Jul 9, 2020

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I don't think it's protecting anyone

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Wait there's AI-generated fanfic of a fanfic written by an AI researcher, but not the researcher who made the AI?

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@dendricide

Jul 9, 2020

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kind of the inverse of a phylactery - instead of taking little pieces out of one soul and stashing them around, it's taking little pieces of all souls and putting them in one place. kind of a mini-noosphere

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people are not nearly excited enough about gpt-3 and the potential of scaling it up

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@QiaochuYuan

Jul 9, 2020

it’s kinda funny actually that as the samples get better they also get harder to authenticate - fake AI-generated text samples have already become a whole joke format

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the human instrumentality project, but we use it to write navy seal copypastas

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@QiaochuYuan

Jul 9, 2020

hmmmm

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twitter.com/DeepLeffen/sta this bot is using gpt-3 modeled after a top smash bros player and it's definitely reaching close to what you're describing, in a smaller lens

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Deep Leffen Bot

@DeepLeffen

· Jul 9, 2020

"Can you feel it? That's the weight of futility. The clock is ticking, your heart is racing, and you've begun to doubt yourself. A terrible, oppressive thought enters your mind: 'He's going to win this.' And of course you're right. You were right the minute you began doubting."