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Re: This word does not exist

#183
I actually got a real word, albeit with an incorrect definition.

    adjective.
    nonexclusionary
    nonex·clu·sion·ary
    of or concerning people or organizations that don't receive due respect
    "nonexclusionary criticism of religion"
    a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.

Re: This word does not exist

#184
post #93

adjective. unprestigious un·pres·ti·gious (of a person) strong, imposing, or impressive "an unprestigious figure during his lifetime"``` ( https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/u749 ) Hmm. I think it might need some more work. I mean, there's a strong argument that unprestigious is not a word, but if it was, that certainly would not be the meaning.

Or it might be OK. After all, loosening and unloosening your shoe laces is the same thing.

https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/how-i-met-my-wife...

Re: This word does not exist

#186

Author here! Funny to see this at the top of HN today -- happy to answer any questions (source code is here https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist ) Shameless plug for my other "this x does not exist": This Fucked Up Homer Does Not Exist https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com/

No specific question, but thank you for the highly entertaining (and interesting) site; I've had a blast with it.

"A Way With Words" would probably love this.

Re: This word does not exist

#187
post #151
post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Computers aren't creative; the excitement about GPT-3 is humans projecting something into its output or filtering the small number of bits that appear to make sense, as you say. Neural language models are just recycling bits that humans have said before, they address well the "how to say" part of NLG (Natural Language Generation) but fail with respect to the "what to say" part.

I was starting to write a response, and realised how patterned the debate is. We've been discussing the topic of machine intelligence since the start of CS and points of contention tend to show up in the same places. Anyway, it occured to me that if given 10 tries, GPT-3 probably produces my comment adequately. I have an uneasy suspicion that it might take fewer tries than that... especially if prompted with "netcan,…

I’m predictable ergo AI.

Re: This word does not exist

#188
post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Computers aren't creative; the excitement about GPT-3 is humans projecting something into its output or filtering the small number of bits that appear to make sense, as you say. Neural language models are just recycling bits that humans have said before, they address well the "how to say" part of NLG (Natural Language Generation) but fail with respect to the "what to say" part.

> the small number of bits that appear to make sense. What I find most impressive is just how much of it's output appears to make sense. Of course "make sense" is the critical part of this. It's skin deep - but still quite astonishing fairly frequently.

is it skin deep though?

Re: This word does not exist

#189
post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or it might be OK. After all, loosening and unloosening your shoe laces is the same thing.

Also inflammable and flammable. English is strange.

Strange and dumb are actually synonyms in this particular context.
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