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Re: This word does not exist

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I know everyone's going to post their favorite word but this one made me chuckle: adjective. refereeless having or showing good judgment "the refereeless refereeing of the 1968 Summer Olympics"

I’m dying, this is great. So much to love, particularity the utterly absurd syllable breakdown

geographography ge·ographog·ra·phy the art or science of drawing maps "technical advances in geographography"

Re: This word does not exist

#283
post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might need some filtering. I got the following output for my 7th or 8th try (I did s/ig/*/g because I hate typing this): noun. n*gerbar n*·ger·bar a bar from which the beer and liquor are sold "that party got a whole lot cooler this week with a n*gerbar refreshment" a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.

(you might want to read up on the use-mention distinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio... )

I have a feeling the parent poster realized they were only mentioning the word, but chose not to write it anyway. For a lot of people, it is a very uncomfortable word after all.

Re: This word does not exist

#285
post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might need some filtering. I got the following output for my 7th or 8th try (I did s/ig/*/g because I hate typing this): noun. n*gerbar n*·ger·bar a bar from which the beer and liquor are sold "that party got a whole lot cooler this week with a n*gerbar refreshment" a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.

It's hilarious that not even this GPT side project can escape the need for OpenAI-style output filtering. Someone really ought to make an open source lib to solve this once and for all...

I think actually solving this problem is somewhat loosely reducible to human level intelligence in language understanding. The next best thing is a pile of patches that fix cases of the increasing creativity of the human adversaries to the system as we become aware of them.

Re: This word does not exist

#286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(you might want to read up on the use-mention distinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio... )

Please could you explain the relevance of the article to the previous comment?

Perhaps throw10920 thinks I should have just used the word because I was only quoting the output, so it wasn't really me saying it, but I chose otherwise. I don't need to read up on the use-mention distinction to decide whether to make such a choice.

Re: This word does not exist

#287
> bruegela a thick, smooth-skinned black pepper with a slightly bitter taste, of the red pepper family, widely used as an anesthetic to treat conditions affecting either limb or the hands, such as gallstones (also see green pepper) "these great kinds of bruegelas flavor every bite"

Haha that’s a wonderful example of how pattern recognition absent understanding can generate nonsense.

Re: This word does not exist

#289
Awesome!

  baconroot
  ba·con·root

  a large, fleshy plant that yields bacon
  "a baconroot salad"


  trickety-clack
  trick·ety·-·clack

  a thing consisting of a series of short leaps or twists with no obvious ends or ends, typically in order to draw somewhere
  "the trickety-clack of trains"

Re: This word does not exist

#290

I played with this and it is super interesting (almost made me register a couple domain names!) That said, to me, it once again reinforces the belief that a large factor in GPT-3 amazingness is the taste in prompting/filtering that humans apply to it, that is, it produces a ton of crap that does not catch our eye that we just silently ignore and discard, but we will amplify and share amongst ourselves the output that…

That said, if I go through this for 5 minutes and pick the 10 best words they will be much better than the 10 best words I could make up in 5 minutes by myself.

I feel you could use it for like 10 seconds to get some inspiration and then trivially come up with something much better. It’s kind of like brainstorming with somebody who speaks before they think.
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