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Re: Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

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Post by stavros »

mrinfinite wrote: post #164

is there any tech where one can record themselves speaking all the phonetic elements and then have a program string the samples together to "speak" texts in your own voice?

Yes! Azure Text-To-Speech supports that, though I have no idea how much it costs or how meticulous you need to be.

Re: Show HN: I had some time yesterday so I made a GPT3 podcast to help you sleep

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Post by biql »

tejohnso wrote: post #48

Supposed to be nonsense stories, but after two minutes of listening, I don't find it nonsensical at all. Sounds like something perfectly reasonable written by a seven to ten year old child.

Good analogy. It feels as if AI is in its child-like stage, trying to make sense of the world on its own, mixing together concepts it has just discovered but not fully understood in an amusing way.

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Post by gala8y »

ravi-delia wrote: post #104
gala8y wrote: post #49

These fairy tales are quite hypnotic for me due to weirdness of AI generated grammar and plot. They reminded me of a beautiful fairy tale Richard Bandler wrote. It is a fable written intentionally using hypnotic language techniques (part of Neuro Linguistic Programming set of patterns) and a nice read. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/364664.The_Adventures_of...

I think several people have commented on how GPT produces narratives with a dream-like quality, locally sensical but less and less so the more you zoom out. I've since found that catching myself thinking nonsensical thoughts is a sure sign I'll soon be asleep. Seems like without high level attention, we do almost exactly what GPT does.

> Seems like without high level attention, we do almost exactly what GPT does.

Absolutely so. Without higher order of organizing patterns in activity, brain is just a bunch of neurons firing up - this will correlate with random phenomena in consciousness. Years ago I read that visions of going through tunnels and into the light at a distance in near-death experiences is just what visual pathways in brain will produce when activity in them fades away. 'Signal lost' experience of a (still conscious) brain. (That would be interesting to dig into this. I have no reference.)

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