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The generated "using it in a sentence" examples are often the funniest (and most absurd) part: chokebone choke·bone the muscle holding a prisoner down, used in controlling an animal or person such as a cat, dog, snake, snakebite, or spider "he managed to regain the chokebone and win the auction for his 12-year-old daughter"

I feel like it's been learning from urban dictionary https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/BpmB

coffeebomb cof·fee·bomb

    a bomb which, in addition to the usual stimulants such as caffeine, turns out to be deadly if inhaled by a person having sexual intercourse
    "a young man survived a blast of coffeebomb, killing two men and wounding five"

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It only took me three tries to find a word that does in fact exist, albeit with the wrong definition. https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/antifragile/eyJ3IjogI...

Probably not a Merriam recognized word, but certainly a trending word a few years ago

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/85HD

pussyhat pussy·hat

    a woman's loose fitting undergarment, typically made of a soft cotton tweeden
    "we ordered a pair of bright-colored polo pants and jumped at the chance to wear a bra with our favorite pussyhat"

Re: This word does not exist

#325
post #113

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…

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.

Your statement that computers aren't creative is not true in general and it's especially not true for GPT-3. It can generate text that appears random at first glance but which has a structure hidden within. As I wrote above, there is no way to prove conclusively whether any given sentence generated by GPT-3 was actually written by GPT-3. But if we assume that all sentences were indeed written by GPT-3 then some of them must be very good indeed because many people find them interesting and worth reading. That means that GPT-3 has demonstrated creativity.

(a response generated by GPT-3)

Re: This word does not exist

#326
post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's just digital trading cards, like pokemon or baseball cards. Just amateurs are running the show now, but the NBA already got in on this, so if you want something more legit: https://nbatopshot.com/

Hey now, they're not just "digital trading cards, like pokemon or baseball cards"! They're also an enormous waste of resources! Yeesh. At least collectors of sports memorabilia have some memorabilia to admire. I can't imagine what value-add there is for "NBA Top Shots" that I can't replicate by backing up a short clip of the play. My solution is more durable, too!

Gold is just a rock. Why do all humans value that nonsense so much?

Re: This word does not exist

#327
post #262

Googler: https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/googler/eyJ3IjogImdvb...

Hah, I just noticed that the url has base64 json in it. Is there a name for this pattern? `{"w": "googler", "d": "an idle person", "p": "noun", "e": "my googlers runnin' over the kitchen sink"}`

I call it the "too lazy to set up a database" pattern (I'm the original author :P). There should be an signature in there too so hopefully tamper-proof.

Re: This word does not exist

#328
post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hah, I just noticed that the url has base64 json in it. Is there a name for this pattern? `{"w": "googler", "d": "an idle person", "p": "noun", "e": "my googlers runnin' over the kitchen sink"}`

I call it the "too lazy to set up a database" pattern (I'm the original author :P). There should be an signature in there too so hopefully tamper-proof.

Haha! Minimum Viable Product!
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