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a flower of a small tree of the praline family that provides the basis of many vegetable roots. Spiders are often a source of vitamins and some essential essential minerals "assemble these pieces of spiderspoop moss to a large pot"

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Re: This word does not exist

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Post by netcan » Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 9:24 PM UTC

revolvingocelot wrote: post #192

netcan wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 on the "if you can't tell the difference..." side, too, but the issue is the "10 tries" and the prompting. GPT-3 has no ability to revise or reconsider or judge anything it writes. We're still safe, IMO, until the main loop goes >generate 10 "netcan comments" >drop 5 least conformant results >reword remaining comments several times >reassess rewordings, select best of each set >select 1 most conformant "netcan co…

Oh I don't disagree that the "best of gpt-3" on twitter is automated hyperbole machine.^ But I think at least in HN, a lot of people have looked at somewhat more objective sources too. The standard way to prove a trick shot is to film yourself do two or three in a row. I agree these are tricks, and a lot are unproven. Some are proven though, FWIW.

Anyway, if the damn thing can do me 10%-60% of the time in a non trivial context... IDK, maybe this just becomes the default standard for "non trivial." and it's no big deal. It is disconcerting though. In any case, assuming GPT-3 progresses... there might be uses for software that does just the first of those things.

All my above comment really means for sure is that NLP can now participate, simulate and perhaps instigate flame wars better. Flame wars were always one of the easy targets, so that's not much of a standard. Who knows though, maybe the road to AGI is a gradual refinement of a flamewar bot to a dialectic philosopher. Cheating on essays is gonna start getting fun.

^If a person uses the Tom Sawyer fence trick to automate a task, is that automation? If the machine does it, is the turn tables?

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by netcan » Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 9:25 PM UTC

avgcorrection wrote: post #187

netcan wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No. I'm predictable, ergo weak AI is predicting me... thus making me self conscious about by predictability.

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by dubcanada » Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 9:25 PM UTC

noun. chokou a soft, creamy white sauce of soy sauce and white wine, typically typically made by pressing chili peppers in small pieces "a soy sauce flavor profile that mixes a littlechokou with pine nuts"

Not even close, how would you make a white sauce with white wine and soy sauce. "Typiclly typically made by pressing chili peppers in small pieces"??? That doesn't even make sense lol