A new AI language model generates poetry and prose – The Economist
But the program is not perfect. Sometimes it seems to regurgitate snippets of memorised text rather than generating fresh text from scratch. More fundamentally, statistical word-matching is not a substitute for a coherent understanding of the world. GPT-3 often generates grammatically correct text that is nonetheless unmoored from reality, claiming, for instance, that “it takes two rainbows to jump from Hawaii to 17”.
I believe the day will come though. I mean, if something like that ever becomes reality, I guess I won’t even be mad. I’ll lose my job like the typists, draughtsmen, and tellers of years past. I guess that’s just how it goes.
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You might be right. I think there’s still a long way to go, though. Hopefully!
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Hopefully a universal income will be there to help writers when it happens.
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Its amazing how things evolve in language. A recent favorite of my friends was inspired by Magnetic Poetry, a set of words on small refrigerator magnets. What is real fun is to place a set of Magnetic Poetry available to everyone in the household and watch how it is organized into comments; just before computer generated prose!
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Yes I like that idea!
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