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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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I did something similar the other day - told it about piglatin and I wanted it to create a comparable language that was based on English and restructured words.

It came back with a language it called "flip-flop" that swapped the first and last letter of each word.

Blew me away, but I have to remind myself that it's likely something it just encountered in training data and isn't actually capable of creativity.

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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I did something similar the other day - told it about piglatin and I wanted it to create a comparable language that was based on English and restructured words. It came back with a language it called "flip-flop" that swapped the first and last letter of each word. Blew me away, but I have to remind myself that it's likely something it just encountered in training data and isn't actually capable of creativity.

-- had it create a chose your own adventure book - unfortunately resulted in me being beat to death by a gang at the bottom of namsan tower - but the 30 minutes of exploring korea with it was - creative & fun --

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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I did something similar the other day - told it about piglatin and I wanted it to create a comparable language that was based on English and restructured words. It came back with a language it called "flip-flop" that swapped the first and last letter of each word. Blew me away, but I have to remind myself that it's likely something it just encountered in training data and isn't actually capable of creativity.

Reminds me of Verlan in French, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlan

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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I don't like the word invention for this. The grammar is laid out by the author who has to teach the AI and correct it several times. If the AI had then proceeded to generate something similar on its own with different grammar and lexicon then I might feel comfortable using the word invention.

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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post #18

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.

It seems trivial, intuitive and not very specialized that someone could derive or at least learn how to do this. Someone creative could do even better than someone with knowledge of language models it seems
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