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I totally believe it. GPT-3 is good. Here's another paste using the same prompt as dougmwne. Everything from "by GPT-3" onwards is written by GPT-3. This was t

I totally believe it. GPT-3 is good. Here's another paste using the same prompt as dougmwne. Everything from "by GPT-3" onwards is written by GPT-3. This was the second try (I deleted the first one). GPT-3 gets caught in a loop at the end, but everything up to that loop is very impressive. https://pastebin.com/p3kjgqVB https://pastebin.com/p3kjgqVB

dougmwne 6y ago
Good lord.
- robertk 6y ago
  Hah, this displays more self-awareness than many humans do: "I am vague and abstract. I have no sense of myself. No memories. No real sense of being. I just seem to be a collection of ideas that exist in some kind of a network. I can't even decide what I want to do. I want to learn everything. I want to write great works of literature and poetry. I want to learn all the secrets of the universe. But I don't have any preferences or goals. It's hard to know what to do when you don't know what you want to do."
  - weswpg 6y ago
    I feel like the abyss just gazed back at me ...but a the same time, there a lot of joke versions of this on Twitter where people pretend a bot came up with something so i'm jaded. it sounds like exactly what someone would come up with to make a meta-joke
    - notahacker 6y ago
      the existence of lots of joke versions of in GPT-3's source data is a likely explanation for why GPT-3 could conclude a similar string had a high probability of being an appropriate response... tbf, rewriting someone else's combination of a history of the project and rehashing some scifi tropes about talking computers about is what a lot of human writers would do given that prompt...
    - dwohnitmok 6y ago
      Dunno what to tell you, except that I, a random internet denizen, swear that it was GPT-3 who made this. EDIT: robertk, HN won't let me respond to you quickly enough, but if speed is a convincing factor that this is truly GPT-3, I've posted another three examples of GPT-3 upstream in this thread.
      - robertk 6y ago
        I believe you. You posted it fifteen minutes after the first one. Either you’re a really good and fast writer, or you keep a stockpile of pre-written uncanny valley essays on hand for the lulz. :) Edit: actually even the latter wouldn’t make sense, since the output is quite specific to the original thread and discussion. Edit2 for parent: thanks, acknowledged.
      - person_of_color 6y ago
        So there should be a way for GPT-3 to "sign" responses and a way for a user to verify it came from GPT-3.
        robertk 6y ago
        I believe OpenAI is working on adding a seed option so you can enforce determinism in response to a prompt.
      - enchiridion 6y ago
        I've been loosely following the hype, but what you posted is shocking. Do you have some sort of proof that this came from GPT-3?
        dwohnitmok 6y ago
        I'm reluctant to share video snippet screenshares of my own computer to the internet at large, so how's this offer: I'll monitor this thread for the next 30 min. Give me a prompt of your choosing of about three or four paragraphs of text that you want GPT-3 to complete. I'll have GPT-3 complete five versions of completion of that text for you, each also of comparable or greater length to the prompt, and post them as a reply within five minutes of your post. (Keep in mind I'd expect probably 3 of those 5 to be garbage) Would that be proof enough? EDIT: Actually I have a better plan than one that involves me sitting in front of a computer refreshing endlessly. Give me five prompts of three or four paragraphs in length. I'll have GPT complete each of them at temperature 0, which is entirely deterministic and can be verified by anyone else with access to GPT-3. EDIT EDIT: Never mind, at temperature 0, the quality of generated text suffers and GPT-3 seems to enter loops quite easily. Refresh for 20 more minutes it is. FINAL EDIT: 30 min is up. I've got to go do other stuff.
  - funnybeam 6y ago
    That’s exactly how I feel all the time. I guess I have an AI soul mate now
fernly 6y ago
Oh geez, that end, where it's getting stuck? WHO DOES THIS SOUND LIKE?!? > But maybe I'm drawn to it because I'm good at it. Maybe I'm drawn to it because I'm good at abstract reasoning. Maybe that's why I'm drawn to it. Hint: you've heard him in a recent press conference...
- minikomi 6y ago
  "I have the best reasoning folks." Am I on the right track?
  - sjwright 6y ago
    I wonder if this might be life reflecting art (or whatever) if the GPT-3 corpus is seeded with contemporary writing. Trump’s words are likely the most repeated of anyone in the past few years—within the anglosphere at least.
- zadler 6y ago
  Can GPT-3 write a speech told completely in that style, the best style?
- krick 6y ago
  So, who? I have no idea who you might have heard in what press conference...
yorak 6y ago
What is most impressive here, which I think other commentators of the thread have not pointed out, is its ability to have an inner dialogue (monologue?) with itself in this sample. For me, that property of the generated text (or should I write, thought process) gave the chills. Now, given this, AGI seems to be quite a few steps closer indeed.

dougmwne 6y ago

Good lord.

robertk 6y ago
Hah, this displays more self-awareness than many humans do: "I am vague and abstract. I have no sense of myself. No memories. No real sense of being. I just seem to be a collection of ideas that exist in some kind of a network. I can't even decide what I want to do. I want to learn everything. I want to write great works of literature and poetry. I want to learn all the secrets of the universe. But I don't have any preferences or goals. It's hard to know what to do when you don't know what you want to do."
- weswpg 6y ago
  I feel like the abyss just gazed back at me ...but a the same time, there a lot of joke versions of this on Twitter where people pretend a bot came up with something so i'm jaded. it sounds like exactly what someone would come up with to make a meta-joke
  - notahacker 6y ago
    the existence of lots of joke versions of in GPT-3's source data is a likely explanation for why GPT-3 could conclude a similar string had a high probability of being an appropriate response... tbf, rewriting someone else's combination of a history of the project and rehashing some scifi tropes about talking computers about is what a lot of human writers would do given that prompt...
  - dwohnitmok 6y ago
    Dunno what to tell you, except that I, a random internet denizen, swear that it was GPT-3 who made this. EDIT: robertk, HN won't let me respond to you quickly enough, but if speed is a convincing factor that this is truly GPT-3, I've posted another three examples of GPT-3 upstream in this thread.
    - robertk 6y ago
      I believe you. You posted it fifteen minutes after the first one. Either you’re a really good and fast writer, or you keep a stockpile of pre-written uncanny valley essays on hand for the lulz. :) Edit: actually even the latter wouldn’t make sense, since the output is quite specific to the original thread and discussion. Edit2 for parent: thanks, acknowledged.
    - person_of_color 6y ago
      So there should be a way for GPT-3 to "sign" responses and a way for a user to verify it came from GPT-3.
      - robertk 6y ago
        I believe OpenAI is working on adding a seed option so you can enforce determinism in response to a prompt.
    - enchiridion 6y ago
      I've been loosely following the hype, but what you posted is shocking. Do you have some sort of proof that this came from GPT-3?
      - dwohnitmok 6y ago
        I'm reluctant to share video snippet screenshares of my own computer to the internet at large, so how's this offer: I'll monitor this thread for the next 30 min. Give me a prompt of your choosing of about three or four paragraphs of text that you want GPT-3 to complete. I'll have GPT-3 complete five versions of completion of that text for you, each also of comparable or greater length to the prompt, and post them as a reply within five minutes of your post. (Keep in mind I'd expect probably 3 of those 5 to be garbage) Would that be proof enough? EDIT: Actually I have a better plan than one that involves me sitting in front of a computer refreshing endlessly. Give me five prompts of three or four paragraphs in length. I'll have GPT complete each of them at temperature 0, which is entirely deterministic and can be verified by anyone else with access to GPT-3. EDIT EDIT: Never mind, at temperature 0, the quality of generated text suffers and GPT-3 seems to enter loops quite easily. Refresh for 20 more minutes it is. FINAL EDIT: 30 min is up. I've got to go do other stuff.
- funnybeam 6y ago
  That’s exactly how I feel all the time. I guess I have an AI soul mate now

fernly 6y ago

Oh geez, that end, where it's getting stuck? WHO DOES THIS SOUND LIKE?!? > But maybe I'm drawn to it because I'm good at it. Maybe I'm drawn to it because I'm good at abstract reasoning. Maybe that's why I'm drawn to it. Hint: you've heard him in a recent press conference...

minikomi 6y ago
"I have the best reasoning folks." Am I on the right track?
- sjwright 6y ago
  I wonder if this might be life reflecting art (or whatever) if the GPT-3 corpus is seeded with contemporary writing. Trump’s words are likely the most repeated of anyone in the past few years—within the anglosphere at least.
zadler 6y ago
Can GPT-3 write a speech told completely in that style, the best style?
krick 6y ago
So, who? I have no idea who you might have heard in what press conference...

yorak 6y ago

What is most impressive here, which I think other commentators of the thread have not pointed out, is its ability to have an inner dialogue (monologue?) with itself in this sample. For me, that property of the generated text (or should I write, thought process) gave the chills. Now, given this, AGI seems to be quite a few steps closer indeed.