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Re: This word does not exist

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Post by smegcicle »

bashinator wrote: post #298
turtlesoup wrote: post #156

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/

I think what it does with real words is almost more interesting. The definition it picked for the word "real" was accurate, but kind of odd. If I recall correctly, "real" was defined as, "committed", or "dedicated", as in "real fans only like the vinyl edition of that record." Which is like, true for sure, but not in the top 10 things I'd think of first.

>adjective. >real > very high opinion or commitment. > "it is not the kind of performance that real fans would listen to"

>abbreviation. >miles > millions; a billion. > "miles of people traveling in miles"

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by knuthsat »

I was reading some reviews on Google of rave clubs in Budapest and Google translated them from Hungarian to Croatian.

The translations were quite funny and bad but I noticed a bunch of new Croatian words that do not exist in any dictionary.

There were a couple of reviews where I found myself laughing because I implicitly understood the review but the Croatian words were completely made up (Googling the word you won't get any results).

So I guess the translation systems might already create words, especially for language pairs that don't have enough data.

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by skissane »

knuthsat wrote: post #342

I was reading some reviews on Google of rave clubs in Budapest and Google translated them from Hungarian to Croatian. The translations were quite funny and bad but I noticed a bunch of new Croatian words that do not exist in any dictionary. There were a couple of reviews where I found myself laughing because I implicitly understood the review but the Croatian words were completely made up (Googling the word you won't…

> There were a couple of reviews where I found myself laughing because I implicitly understood the review but the Croatian words were completely made up (Googling the word you won't get any results).

Is it possible some of those were actually Hungarian words being copied verbatim into the Croatian text? Or maybe close variants of the Hungarian words (such as in a different grammatical case)?

I've seen before, when translating from one language to another, if Google Translate doesn't understand a word, it just copies it verbatim from the source to the target. I don't know whether this is true, but it seems possible to me it might even sometimes "normalise" the word when doing so (e.g. if it doesn't recognise the word, but recognises it as being in genitive case, it might convert it to nominative and stick the word "of" in front when translating it to English, assuming the source language's grammar is sufficiently regular to permit it to convert an unrecognised word to a different case.) I've definitely seen it transliterate unknown words in the source language before (when translating from languages with non-Latin scripts.)

Doing something like Hungarian to Croatian is likely worse, because it is probably being chained through English instead of being translated directly, which doubles the possibility of odd things like this happening. Since both Hungarian and Croatian have grammatical case, if it is doing the kind of "case-based normalisation of unknown words" I was talking about, it might do it twice (Hungarian->English then again for English->Croatian), creating even weirder results.

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by edflsafoiewq »

xd wrote: post #114

"a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm." I've minimal understanding of AI/ML but from what I think I know, isn't it all based on probability and therefore the quote above that these words don't exist is.. possibly wrong?

Any resemblance to a real word with same spelling is purely coincidental.

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by smt1 »

revolvingocelot wrote: post #266
turtlesoup wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alright! Someone shilling on my behalf. Say what you want about NFTs, every time I see one of the homers sell it brings a big smile to my face.

Frankly, I'm mocking it. Or trying to. Riffing on it? NFTs strike me as obvious nonsense -- why not use all that energy for something more useful, like piping /dev/urandom to /dev/null -- but NFT sales of obvious nonsense, of an algorithmic corruption of an artistic representation of a shared cultural totem, are almost high art. Like, unpleasantly high art. Way too high art. Art that makes me want to go lie down for…

Data art is anti-dada.

Re: This word does not exist

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Post by [deleted] »

mehrdada wrote: post #64

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…

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Re: This word does not exist

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Post by danans »

turtlesoup wrote: post #156

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/

The "word" segmentation seems pretty off, even for these hallucinated words and meanings. Are they generated by the same model?
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