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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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Earlier i was saying it isn't scary but maybe it is.

It is impressive how ChatGPT keeps track of state and the flow of the conversation. How does it do it? Is it some kind of memory or some other model? ( I asked it, it keeps lying to me that it does not have memory)

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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I know everyone's (as usual) "amazed" by this, but here are a few stark observations: (1) a linguist could do this (come up with a toy language, conjugations, and sentence structure, probably the Python code too) in like 30 minutes, (2) it's disappointing that the AI constantly messes up very simple grammar rules (rules a grade-schooler could understand)—I'm actually very surprised it doesn't have hardcoded grammar r…

Haters gonna hate

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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I see posts like this and don't understand how they are made. I asked chatGPT this morning if it "remembered" something I asked in the previous prompt, and it said something to the tune of "I am simply a NLP machine learning model, I provide a decent output for good inputs, I don't have a sense of context, memory, or time."

That's why I really don't understand these contextualized multi step conversations. Especially by the fact this is a payed for substack... I'm inclined to beleive that the both the responses and or flow of conversation (or both) are partially (or more than partially) fabricated.

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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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 na…

I don't know if you care about this kind of thing, but the copy-paste has exposed your name. (The icons in the chat have your account name as the alt text).

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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Not sure how many have discovered but ChatGPT works well with many languages, for example asking a question in estonian gives an adequate answer in estonian, just the grammar is a tiny bit more off.

I was frustrated trying something with Mapbox today and asked GPT to do it... And it returned fine react-mapboxgl code that was mostly correct. Got me a bit more angry.

Then I asked for the same "but as Dutch song lyrics"... And got a song with three verses and a chorus about setting map layers and longitudes and latitudes and stuff, in Dutch.

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reads like a "my dog can sing!" "yeah, but it's too flat in parts" comment.

I think people don't really understand what's happening, and therefore why it's impressive that it's happening.

Probably? I can't fathom how people are unimpressed by an AI that can output coherent sentences on a topic, let alone invent a language!

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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post #21

Not sure how many have discovered but ChatGPT works well with many languages, for example asking a question in estonian gives an adequate answer in estonian, just the grammar is a tiny bit more off.

Ilmselt sellepärast, et lihtsalt ei ole piisavalt eestikeelseid veebilehti, mida maha kraapida :)

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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post #37

I know everyone's (as usual) "amazed" by this, but here are a few stark observations: (1) a linguist could do this (come up with a toy language, conjugations, and sentence structure, probably the Python code too) in like 30 minutes, (2) it's disappointing that the AI constantly messes up very simple grammar rules (rules a grade-schooler could understand)—I'm actually very surprised it doesn't have hardcoded grammar r…

Yeah, I was reading this and thinking it's mostly substituting English for another vocabulary. It's even referencing English when it comes up with something new, eg. referencing use of the "sl" consonant cluster in English.

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.

Why don't you like it?

Well, I feel like I said it, but for the same reason that a student learning French has not invented French, or even a new language, if he has come up with his own equivalent for each French word

Re: I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

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Introducing: AI-Oriented Programming. Coming soon.

If you allow a tool like ChatGPT access to APIs, I think it opens up a new programming paradigm: AI-Oriented Programming. The idea's that you talk to it, and tell it what to do in response to inputs. You then test out its ability to do those things, and correct its mistakes. There's no actual "code".

In a way, everything that's hard about programming is because computers don't understand our intentions. Lots of clever ways have been devised to overcome this (high-level languages, libraries, GUI builders, type systems, IDEs, static analysers). But something like AI-Oriented Programming is the most direct attack on the problem that exists.

One downside of course is that computers have found a new way to misunderstand what we mean. Another is that such "code" is probably going to run slower than compiled code in C++, or whatever. But programmer output is about to soar.

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