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I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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Post by assusdan »

datalopers wrote: post #4
bjourne wrote: post #3

Someone with ChatGPT access able to replicate? Because this article is unbelievable.

ChatGPT access is 100% free and instant approval.

Yet it is not available in some countries. VPN does not help, as valid phone number is required and its country code is being checked.

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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Post by nomel »

bjourne wrote: post #3

Someone with ChatGPT access able to replicate? Because this article is unbelievable.

Go play with it! https://chat.openai.com

Make sure to go back to that URL after creating an OpenAI account. The prompt is at the bottom of the screen. Note that state persists through the thread, by previous query/response. If you want to "start over" use the "reset thread" option at the top left. This can speed things up, if you don't need that previous state for the later queries.

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Post by Mockapapella »

One thing I'd like to point out is that while it's incredible that ChatGPT was able to make this, it still required specific domain knowledge to correct the AI throughout to make sure it was actually responding in "Glorp" in the correct cases and clauses. I don't know a ton about those so they went completely over my head until the author responded saying that ChatGPT did it incorrectly.

Caveats aside, really cool article OP. Shared it with some writer/story teller friends of mine.

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Post by gppk »

bjourne wrote: post #3

Someone with ChatGPT access able to replicate? Because this article is unbelievable.

I Ctrl+v the first few questions:

Hi GPT! Today we're going to be creating our own language. Do not improvise unless I explicitly tell you to improvise, and remember all of the vocabulary and grammar that we define together. Are you ready?

Yes, I'm ready! Let's get started creating our own language. What would you like to do first? Graham Kitteridge Okay. I think this language will be spoken by slime beings. let's name the language Glorp.

All right. So the language we're creating is called Glorp and it will be spoken by slime beings. Got it. What kind of grammar rules should Glorp have? Graham Kitteridge First, let's pick ten common nouns. Pick ten common English nouns, and provide translations of them in Glorp

Sure! Here are ten common English nouns and their translations in Glorp:

    "house" = "gluz"
    "table" = "sliz"
    "book" = "flurp"
    "car" = "slim"
    "dog" = "dlorp"
    "cat" = "mlem"
    "food" = "glib"
    "drink" = "slurp"
    "tree" = "swomp"
    "flower" = "slurk"
These are just suggestions, of course. You can use any words you like for these nouns in Glorp. Let me know if you have any changes or additions.

(Then i got timed out)

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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Post by simonw »

This is a great example of how much more you can get done with tools like ChatGPT if you have a very sophisticated understanding both of how language models work AND of a specific subject area.

Another example of why I disagree with people who make fun of the idea of "prompt engineering" as a discipline.

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