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Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

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Post by bigbossman »

The AI must be a Lakers fan.

> Hint: steph curry > Prompt: the greatest point guard > Generated: the greatest point guard to the best current NBA player.

" Well, I love the game. I love the game of basketball. I want to be a part of that. " — Kobe Bryant

Though not a part of the Lakers organization, Bryant was an integral member of their championship teams in 2008 and 2009. He averaged 25.4 points per game, shot. .467 from 3-point range and shot over 50 percent on 3-pointers. His career high for 3s made

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

#33

Post by saratv »

aantix wrote: post #28

How does this compare to the other word spinners out there?

If you are talking about recent AI ones, should generally comparable favorably and should be better in some contexts (rather limited at this time).

We are a new startup, so hope to move ahead and stay ahead.

If you have experience with others, could you try and let us know what you find?

Thanks much.

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

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Post by jstummbillig »

While I find language models incredibly interesting as a technical challenge, I dread the day they actually start producing plausible, yet completely fake tweets, articles, entire books in fractions of seconds for cents to the dollar.

To me, this is a strong contender for the least morally justifiable thing to work on as a product (as opposed to research, geared towards detection/prevention of the same).

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

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Post by saratv »

css wrote: post #27
saratv wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is a source for the corpus, so it is likely that the style matches it. More likely for some topics/styles than others. Do you feel it somehow affects the quality of generations? Thanks for the feedback. It'd be great if you can sign up and try it further and help improve the application.

I don't know why I would want to generate a line like "Flair: other" in a blog post. Why would the flair for a Reddit post even be in the corpus? Your app is billed as a writing tool, but this seems like a Reddit title and flair generator.

At this time, the engine has no knowledge about your context (blogging etc.). It picks up completions matching the topic and style.

I understand that you find this odd since you are not composing a Reddit post.

Again, very useful feedback; keeps us busy.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

#36

Post by curo »

This makes me laugh. I started a sentence on facilitating partner networks and got a fairly good line that I might have read from a white paper.

Maybe one of the biggest upsides from AI will be highlighting how predictable our thoughts are. If you can use neural nets to create impressionist paintings, I'm sure we'll quickly get to the point where we can autocomplete our cleverest quips.

At the risk of sounding cynical, I think most conversations are comprised by the brain's autocomplete. Very little comes from a fresh place. Top voted comments on HN, Reddit, Twitter come in various familiar patterns. This comment right here even feels a bit stale as do a lot of my own tweets and musings.

The optimist angle is to think that after AI can populate these threads for us or guess at our conversations, we'll either (a) fall gradually into a contemplative silence or (b) up our game and only write/speak when we can clear the minimum thresholds of predictability.

I love chatting with my girlfriend. She says highly predictable things, but in an animated and lovely way. So as a third option, perhaps we'll (c) start focusing on the non-verbal expressions that are harder for AI to replicate. Something where its attempts to replicate would fall into the valley of the uncanny in its siege of our last stronghold: that highest point from which our mechanical brains are infused with life.

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

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Post by saratv »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #17

Wow to be charitable- you rebranded already existing language models (gpt-2, Bert, xlnet, etc) - and turned it into a SaaS... Though those models seem more effective than this service by a long shot. Worse, even the best NLP models at the moment are clever hanses. Also, the huggingface "write with transformer" has far more hyperparamaters to play with which make it far far far better than this website. I'm sorry to h…

Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, the SaaS does rely on state-of-the-art NLG. I don't know why you think they are far better if we are using them as is. I am not offended at all; just curious where that big difference is.

Who says one can't compete against the best minds? Isn't that the premise of startups and progress?

If you are a fan of "CTRL", you should have liked ours a bit better.

Apps need to simplify and yet provide the desired experience for end users. From your feedback, it seems we need to try way harder.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

#38

Post by saratv »

curo wrote: post #36

This makes me laugh. I started a sentence on facilitating partner networks and got a fairly good line that I might have read from a white paper. Maybe one of the biggest upsides from AI will be highlighting how predictable our thoughts are. If you can use neural nets to create impressionist paintings, I'm sure we'll quickly get to the point where we can autocomplete our cleverest quips. At the risk of sounding cynica…

Thanks for trying and some profound thoughts around it!

Yes, we do learn from our surroundings and at an early stage in our lives. Nothing is totally novel.

However, the AI is intended to augment than replace and sometimes enhance our capabilities. Being predicable isn't such a bad thing after all!

Thanks again!

Re: Show HN: Sassbook AI writer – Create text content rapidly using AI

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Post by saratv »

bigbossman wrote: post #32

The AI must be a Lakers fan. > Hint: steph curry > Prompt: the greatest point guard > Generated: the greatest point guard to the best current NBA player. " Well, I love the game. I love the game of basketball. I want to be a part of that. " — Kobe Bryant Though not a part of the Lakers organization, Bryant was an integral member of their championship teams in 2008 and 2009. He averaged 25.4 points per game, shot. .46…

Note that the generations aren't expected to be factually correct, but rather provides a possible completion, which may be edited for originality and correctness.
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