Holy crapoly. The quality (in both senses) of the output given an appropriately constructed prompt is incredible. I wonder if it's possible to get it to do the opposite of summarizing, ie. give it a plot summary and have it expand it into a fleshed out story that conforms to the summary...
I wonder if it's possible to get it to do the opposite of summarizing That's pretty much its main job: you provide a prompt and it writes a story about it.
GPT-3 Creative Fiction
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Re: GPT-3 Creative Fiction
#102Holy crapoly. The quality (in both senses) of the output given an appropriately constructed prompt is incredible. I wonder if it's possible to get it to do the opposite of summarizing, ie. give it a plot summary and have it expand it into a fleshed out story that conforms to the summary...
It doesn't seem to work quite as well. For single sentences, GPT-3 output usually hangs together pretty well. For longer stretches of text, often there are internal inconsistencies that are jarring when you read it, or parts that don't quite make sense when you read it as a whole.
Re: GPT-3 Creative Fiction
#103I'm gonna put forward the very view that gwern repeatedly argues against: "but... it's not understanding ." So far I see no evidence that this thing or anything else like it has any actual understanding, any model of the world. Indeed it can't as it possesses no sensory apparatus. It's not embodied. It doesn't experience anything. I'm not sure the OpenAI folks would argue with me, but it seems Gwern asserts that this…