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used to emphasize the polite response indicated by an acknowledgment of a situation being discussed or acted on
"she left after the yadda, and I wasn't ready to tell someone"Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was starting to write a response, and realised how patterned the debate is. We've been discussing the topic of machine intelligence since the start of CS and points of contention tend to show up in the same places. Anyway, it occured to me that if given 10 tries, GPT-3 probably produces my comment adequately. I have an uneasy suspicion that it might take fewer tries than that... especially if prompted with "netcan,…
That fact that humans can be creative does not mean that all humans are. Nor does it mean its actually all that common. True creativity is very rare. Even people we normally describe as "creatives" are mostly working off of convention and are influenced by others. I've come to accept that 99% of what humanity does is derivative and mediocre. That's ok.
I didn't realise parrots were people!
Author here! Funny to see this at the top of HN today -- happy to answer any questions (source code is here https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist ) Shameless plug for my other "this x does not exist": This Fucked Up Homer Does Not Exist https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com/
noun.
n*gerbar
n*·ger·bar
a bar from which the beer and liquor are sold
"that party got a whole lot cooler this week with a n*gerbar refreshment"
a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.
I read it as "This World Does Not Exist", which would be a fantastic NFT collection.
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I'm on the "if you can't tell the difference..." side, too, but the issue is the "10 tries" and the prompting. GPT-3 has no ability to revise or reconsider or judge anything it writes. We're still safe, IMO, until the main loop goes >generate 10 "netcan comments" >drop 5 least conformant results >reword remaining comments several times >reassess rewordings, select best of each set >select 1 most conformant "netcan co…
Oh I don't disagree that the "best of gpt-3" on twitter is automated hyperbole machine.^ But I think at least in HN, a lot of people have looked at somewhat more objective sources too. The standard way to prove a trick shot is to film yourself do two or three in a row. I agree these are tricks, and a lot are unproven. Some are proven though, FWIW. Anyway, if the damn thing can do me 10%-60% of the time in a non trivi…
I've heard serious speculation that GPT-3 (or certainly its successors) might find utility for writers as a combination of a ghostwriter and Github Copilot.
>^If a person uses the Tom Sawyer fence trick to automate a task, is that automation? If the machine does it, is the turn tables?
It's not here yet, but the grim day on which I no longer communicate with anyone on the Internet for fear they're not actually a living conversational partner approaches. Even those I can cryptographically prove are people that I know will be suspects: "euurgh, I'm too busy to talk to this guy today, he's so boring. I'll just feed GPT-10 all our old conversations, tell it to be me, aaaand..."
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There is only poor, easily dismissable argument that unprestigious is not a word. The un- prefix is a highly productive morpheme English; dictionaries would only waste space by listing every possible un- word.
I'm not sure why, but "non-prestigious" feels more "correct" to me. I know that those prefixes aren't identical in meaning though, so both could be words with slightly different meanings.
I once dreamt a word, and when I woke up and looked it up, it didn't exist anywhere. I wonder if I refresh this page long enough, whether it would eventually appear.
Author here! Funny to see this at the top of HN today -- happy to answer any questions (source code is here https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist ) Shameless plug for my other "this x does not exist": This Fucked Up Homer Does Not Exist https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com/