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The computers are getting better at writing

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Re: The computers are getting better at writing

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Post by chillacy »

swiley wrote: post #16
causality0 wrote: post #4

GPT-3-generated writing is a combination of comically absurd and incredibly deep. The weak infants of the woman next door who had to be picked up with the tongs and thrown into the dustbin is quite silly but then there's He wanted to crawl away from it, but there was no place to go. which is a surprisingly deep statement about the revulsion he feels towards himself. That a computer can generate that says very uncomfo…

Deep statements are deep because the communicate feeling, if the machine never felt anything but tripped over meaning like this (and it's pretty obvious it's just gluing things together) it really dulls the effect.

Today at least all the gpt3 we read is still hand selected by another human, so if it communicated feeling in the editor, we get to read it.

Re: The computers are getting better at writing

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Post by bambax »

jamesjyu wrote: post #160
bambax wrote: post #159

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Interesting! Thank you for answering. How long is the waiting list to join Sudowrite beta?

It’s gotten quite large, but we plan on sending more invites out soon. We are prioritizing folks who are working writers and have an immediate project they’re working on that could benefit from collaborating with an AI. If this sounds like you, sign up on the beta form and also send me a note about how you’ll use Sudowrite to jamesjacobyu@gmail.com

> working writers and have an immediate project they’re working on that could benefit from collaborating with an AI. If this sounds like you

Not sure. I'm not a professional writer. I just finished my first novel (in French) and am starting a new one in English. I think the idea is great and quite original but I struggle a bit with scene ideas and general structure.

I think what I'm looking for is a sparring partner... Maybe I just need to paint a face on a volleyball...

Re: The computers are getting better at writing

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Post by falsaberN1 »

amilios wrote: post #30

It's clear that the system occasionally struggles in making coherent sentences that communicate actual meaning -- others have pointed this out well enough. I think what's occasionally lost in these types of criticisms of these systems is the point the article is making about the transformation of the role of the writer from a producer to a curator. Already this transformation has occured in other fields; the job of a…

A friend of mine is a Japanese person who translates JapaneseEnglish stuff and machine translation is absolutely unthinkable there, and would take much longer to "tweak" into something that works. It's no wonder there's high demand for people like him.

Re: The computers are getting better at writing

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Post by throwawaygh »

watwut wrote: post #60
kumarvvr wrote: post #27

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And other people reward those findings with money. Good writing is hard. Writing that evokes emotions in others is even harder.

It is extraordinary rare to ear money by writing. It may be hard, but people dont reward it with cash.

Exactly. Getting people to see patterns is easy. Getting people to fork over money based on those perceptions is much more difficult. Ask any church plant.
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