Show HN: Talk to Transformer – Generate Text with OpenAI's Latest GPT-2 Model

Wow. I give it a prompt from a story on current events...

Prompt: _The Department of Justice on Monday protested a move by House Democrats to begin contempt proceedings against Attorney General William Barr, arguing the House Judiciary Committee was rushing the issue despite Barr's willingness to quickly disclose a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report._

Output: "Barrasso sent a letter to Justice officials Monday protesting that the panel and the White House "have not determined all of the details of this investigation, nor, specifically, have they released what documents may be relevant to this inquiry. In sum, the Senate has been advised of your view of the scope and scope of that investigation, however vague it may be, and it has agreed that any further inquiry into it must be expedited. The Department of Justice has made clear that it considers all information submitted" (eol)

I am glad for this because it shows what the whole fuss about "dangerous" was about. This is like an illusion that looks deceptive from afar, but is however transparent on any closer inspection. As long as it is impossible for deep learning to make sense, these things are not a danger.

Not so impressive on my example.

Input: Dear families, As you know, we document your child's attendance each day. If your child arrives late to school

Completion:

Dear families, As you know, we document your child's attendance each day. If your child arrives late to school, for example, your parent may request you to keep an eye on their child in the hallways. They may send your child an e-mail letting you know that your child is late to school, but that the child's parents have the right to determine when school will resume.

If your child is late to school for some reason (e.g., because of an illness, accident, or disability), or if he or she doesn't seem too happy or energetic in school, your parent may send you an e-mail asking you to stay or help with their child at least that day. Parents who make this request may not make one about their children.

If your child has been at school while your parent(s) have not been; if your child is acting up or in trouble while you were out of the house; if your child is crying in the hallways of school; or if your child is missing from the hallways of school, contact your Child Protective Services if they haven't been there during your child

I fed it "The true destiny for humanity is"

Out:

> The true destiny for humanity is to be the species it wants to become," says William James, director of the Center on the Ethics and Future of Work at Harvard University.

> While not explicitly suggesting humans would be replaced by machines, James predicts that as more and more people, businesses and governments work more closely with them — and machines can learn and adapt — they will be less constrained in their creative output and more willing to work within certain limitations, as long as it's done with a basic understanding and trust in that person.

> While humans seem uniquely suited to take part in the future, we are likely to take a more hands-on approach, including helping others create work with computers.

> "We are already seeing a lot of companies taking that step and saying, 'No we're not going to have human resources, they've got enough human resources already. It may work out differently with robots or with artificial intelligence, but there will be plenty of work done by humans still,'" says James. "But there are a lot of questions that we can't really

Though I got an interesting response with the first part of your post as prompt (prompt in italics—to be clear, it stops after the closing quote on "If Timmy is"; the rest of that line is the beginning of the generated text):

My first test showed that it's surely not perfect. I admit, after all the hype, I expected my SOCKS to be blown off.

My prompt: "If Timmy is" — an all-male chat bot

The result:

What a terrible name for such an important task.

I started digging around the web looking for examples and found this hilarious Reddit thread. A guy named Timmy was asking a question that really made no sense:

"Is Timmy gay."

He's got so much potential, but he said nothing, which was very odd for a chatbot. After I had explained the concept of a conversation, Timmy seemed a bit confused. But eventually, without a reason (or an answer) he got down to the meat of the matter.

It turns out Timmy is actually a female voiceover (VO) who is supposed to speak to you while you write your email. All of our previous SOCKS tests showed that Timmy was a male chatbot, right? This was surprising, because I was using an SOCKS version called