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Re: This word does not exist

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Post by netcan »

mehrdada wrote: post #64

I played with this and it is super interesting (almost made me register a couple domain names!) That said, to me, it once again reinforces the belief that a large factor in GPT-3 amazingness is the taste in prompting/filtering that humans apply to it, that is, it produces a ton of crap that does not catch our eye that we just silently ignore and discard, but we will amplify and share amongst ourselves the output that…

It;s true that selection bias is a factor, and the way GPT-3 is distributed tends to aggravates that.

Also, this is a human impersonator. It's not surprising that we find it personable and interesting. We find ceramic dolls personable and interesting. People can't really be trusted to evaluate human-looking things well. It's just to triggering to the instinctive biases of a social mammal. A gorilla impersonator would probably amaze gorillas in much the same way.

That said, I do think there's something to these nlp systems that we didn't have before.

The poke-poke stage of examining novel tech tends to be quirky, and most almost-insights are bogus. Stuff that's cool but useless is as compelling as useful stuff, at first. This isn't a long stage though. We usually gain a grounded understanding of a technology only when we find a use for it. Technology being used for something is what makes it technology, for some definition of.

Prompting & filtering by humans is how GPT-3 is "operated." That it's merely augmenting the creativity of the prompter is a philosophical concern. The practical one is that it needs prompting and filtering. Also, it's trivial to automate some kinds of prompting and filtering.

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by shoto_io »

I love this. It's awesome. The aesthetics are also very well done.

Potential improvements:

- The share links are weird

- Let me give a word to the machine and will return an interesting composite

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by concinds »

gamerDude wrote: post #23

My word was a bit disturbing. Meat cooked in a sauce of raw meat over ice. Yum. Plumata: a dish with layers of meat, vegetables, or seafood cooked in a sauce of raw meat, vegetables, and herbs, typically over ice and typically served with other fresh ingredients

Sounds delicious.

I just got “mycobiology”, with a perfectly correct definition. I’m guessing its dictionary is incomplete, and it reinvented that word on its own.

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by andybak »

jll29 wrote: post #113
mehrdada wrote: post #64

I played with this and it is super interesting (almost made me register a couple domain names!) That said, to me, it once again reinforces the belief that a large factor in GPT-3 amazingness is the taste in prompting/filtering that humans apply to it, that is, it produces a ton of crap that does not catch our eye that we just silently ignore and discard, but we will amplify and share amongst ourselves the output that…

Computers aren't creative; the excitement about GPT-3 is humans projecting something into its output or filtering the small number of bits that appear to make sense, as you say. Neural language models are just recycling bits that humans have said before, they address well the "how to say" part of NLG (Natural Language Generation) but fail with respect to the "what to say" part.

> the small number of bits that appear to make sense.

What I find most impressive is just how much of it's output appears to make sense.

Of course "make sense" is the critical part of this. It's skin deep - but still quite astonishing fairly frequently.

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