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Poem/1: AI rhyming clock

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Re: Poem/1: AI rhyming clock

#11
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by setting up a Raspberry PI in the closet as the API server and an older Kindle as display.

Re: Poem/1: AI rhyming clock

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post #8

I am sorry, but a poem from chatGPT, any AI, doesn't trigger any emotion, there is no resonating body, however small, in me. It is simply wasted time, even if it is a "well" written poem. If art was not made by humans, the output is like a category mistake for me. Let AI do useful things, but if it is to produce art, then only for its own brood, other AIs. But then, that's exactly what we shouldn't allow, because it'…

Would love to see you turing test an AI poet.

Re: Poem/1: AI rhyming clock

#13
post #7

24 hours * 60 minutes * 5000 messages * 100 char/msg = 720mb. 14 years of unique messages would fit on 1gb sd, probably cheaper than a wifi unit and the interface required to configure it. it'll last longer too than the chatgpt api.

You missed the important part: they charge for a yearly subscription to their service.

Re: Poem/1: AI rhyming clock

#14
This will become a collector's item, as they will be very rare, the others having ended up in landfill, and this era of AI will be looked at as comical.

Souvenirs of this era will be very valuable!

Re: Poem/1: AI rhyming clock

#15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some value is not rational. "And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning." (Burgess)

Hilarious thing to quote under a GPT generator

Well it's precisely what GPT struggles with! Poetic meaning is probably the deepest level on which we humans relate to text, and it's incredibly difficult to produce.

Re: Poem/1: AI rhyming clock

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post #12
post #8

I am sorry, but a poem from chatGPT, any AI, doesn't trigger any emotion, there is no resonating body, however small, in me. It is simply wasted time, even if it is a "well" written poem. If art was not made by humans, the output is like a category mistake for me. Let AI do useful things, but if it is to produce art, then only for its own brood, other AIs. But then, that's exactly what we shouldn't allow, because it'…

Would love to see you turing test an AI poet.

You can try yourself here: https://wyclif.substack.com/p/thought-bubble-mcgonagall-or-c...
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