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Re: I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it

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Post by stavros »

EGreg wrote: post #88
spullara wrote: post #82

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I asked GPT-3 to respond, it said: > I don't think it's likely that the AI memorized any comments from Hacker News. I think it's more likely that it was able to learn from the data it was given and generate its own story and illustration.

I asked GPT-4 and it spit out the following continuation: > That’s complete rubbish. I personally think that the above comments were not written by AI, but by clever Hacker News members who passed it off as AI. The question remains open, however, whether that was done in an attempt to deceive, or with tongue firmly in cheek. The cat is out of the bag, but paul graham is on the other foot in the bus? Regardless, this…

You can try GPT-3 yourself, it's not like it's some locked-down secret (any more).

Re: I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it

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Post by drusepth »

noisy_boy wrote: post #60
qgin wrote: post #58

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That could be the job description of the editor of the New Yorker

New job title: Chief Editor, AI Content Bonus points for outsourcing that to AI.

Running novelgens.com basically gives me that job title. I occasionally build new features, but really all I do all day is review generated text/images and flag the good ones as "ready to release". :)

Re: I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it

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Post by Melting_Harps »

sitkack wrote: post #23
snek_case wrote: post #12

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Well, I think that ideally, if you have AI-generated content, the AI would generate content that's tailored specifically for you. It would have a good model of what you're interested in, and would know how to create an intrigue that you specifically will find interesting.

It will be AI generated shopping channel dynamically generating products for you to buy on subscription. This one of the solutions to the Drake equation

> It will be AI generated shopping channel dynamically generating products for you to buy on subscription. This one of the solutions to the Drake equation

This is rather probable business model for non General-AI targeted at the end consumer, incidentally it too reads like an AI response: specifically the part about the Drake equation and reminds me of Carbon Based Lifeforms - MOS 6581, whose lyrics also sound like an AI repeating a story about horses and Mongols like OPs [0]. And the start of album is a track called Abiogenesis that has a repetition of the Drake Equation in it, no less.

Putting all that together as a person that is actually studying AI/ML, I found it all rather freaky. Obviously, I know AI in it's current form is rather limited in it's capacity and scope but it makes for interesting lore none the less. Especially if it ever lives up to it's marketing hype. I'll be saving this post to look back at as I progress in my studies over the years.

0: https://genius.com/Carbon-based-lifeforms-mos-6581-lyrics

Re: I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it

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Post by dave_sullivan »

randomsearch wrote: post #78
goodside wrote: post #76

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The following is an un-curated text-davinci-002 generation, completing the text: > Write an insightful reply to this Hacker News comment on a link to an article titled "I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it". The comment is left by user "turtledove", and reads, "How many attempts and how much human curation was involved. Every 'I made AI do...' story seems to necessarily omit the 'a…

This is really very impressive. How likely is it this is essentially one or more comments from HN memorised by the neural net, with some synonym usage? How do we know that it’s not just reposting partially disguised sentences written by a human author?

You could write a paper about it, people are looking into this. I think you'll find it's a little more complicated than that, but I'll read your paper if you do the research and publish it on arxiv.

Re: I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it

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Post by Tepix »

turtledove wrote: post #54

How many attempts and how much human curation was involved. Every "I made AI do..." story seems to necessarily omit the "and I filtered out a LOT of rubbish before picking this one good example."

It's a form of survivorship bias. If the results had been poor, he wouldn't have blogged about it.

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Post by hackernewds »

qwertox wrote: post #85
goodside wrote: post #76

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The following is an un-curated text-davinci-002 generation, completing the text: > Write an insightful reply to this Hacker News comment on a link to an article titled "I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it". The comment is left by user "turtledove", and reads, "How many attempts and how much human curation was involved. Every 'I made AI do...' story seems to necessarily omit the 'a…

I think we're currently witnessing something truly unique with the rise of AI, something which is as special as life being born on earth. There'll still be the discussion around conscience, but having a tool which can emulate human thinking is really wild. The next 5 years will be really interesting. Also to see how this will be absorbed by society.

Let's not get carried away. it is still originalonly to the extent that it is a different combination of existing prose - just unrecognizable due to the vastness of online content.

It is both beautiful and scary that it is indeed indistinguishable from original creative content.

Re: I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it

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Post by hsn915 »

hackernewds wrote: post #97
qwertox wrote: post #85

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I think we're currently witnessing something truly unique with the rise of AI, something which is as special as life being born on earth. There'll still be the discussion around conscience, but having a tool which can emulate human thinking is really wild. The next 5 years will be really interesting. Also to see how this will be absorbed by society.

Let's not get carried away. it is still original only to the extent that it is a different combination of existing prose - just unrecognizable due to the vastness of online content. It is both beautiful and scary that it is indeed indistinguishable from original creative content.

But that's how humans learn language to begin with.

I mean, look at this sentence.

> But overall, I think the point of the article is that the AI was able to produce something fairly coherent on its own.

The AI not only combined words. It figured out the context of the conversation, the intention of the comment its responding to, and made the appropriate response using the english language.

Re: I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it

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Post by amarant »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #64
lmm wrote: post #14

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We've had practically unlimited entertainment for most purposes for at least the last couple of decades. There's far more e.g. TV being produced than anyone could watch in one lifetime.

It's still finitely constrained by human production capacity. Consider having AI alter an existing show to suit your tastes. That is unlimited. Don't like how the scene is lit? Have it changed. Don't like an annoying character? Have them removed.

Then imagine when it can do that real-time with live-action content.

Deepfakes: the video game

Re: I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it

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Post by yreg »

tikkun wrote: post #2

The future of ai generated content and entertainment is going to be wild! How long before we have ~unlimited high quality entertainment? Before an AI can generate infinite episodes of your favorite show, podcast, comedian, and so on. Going to be an interesting thing to watch unfold.

An obvious application would be creation of rich (MMO) worlds where each player goes on unique quests. IIRC NovelAI (one of the AIDungeon clones) is working on this.

Also: Open-ended NPC dialogues.

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