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I think businesses that benefit from large amounts of auto-generated content (namely video games) will also benefit from GPT-3. Some of what breaks the immersio

I think businesses that benefit from large amounts of auto-generated content (namely video games) will also benefit from GPT-3. Some of what breaks the immersion in an open world game like GTA is repeated conversations among NPCs, so automated scripts and improvements to text-to-speech synthesis would massively improve that experience. I could also see fiction writers using such tools to get around writer's block - feed previous works or a novel-in-progress as training data and let the AI generate the next paragraph. Additionally, many forms of media and entertainment tend to be one-off affairs (essentially rapidly scaled up / quickly spun down businesses that benefit from quality off-the-shelf tooling).

weeksie 6y ago
I like the idea of using generated dialog for NPCs in those kinds of circumstances where dynamic dialog makes sense. As an author I can assure you that writers block is a different animal. Being blocked on fiction happens because you don't know what comes next, and no amount of generative help will clarify a story. Novels aren't written one paragraph at a time, moving inexorably forward. Generating another sentence to get over the hump would only push a lost novice even farther into the wilderness. I do believe you could replace 95% of the comedy accounts on Twitter though.
- deep_etcetera 6y ago
  I don't really understand your point, you don't have to use it to generate the next sentence or paragraph of your story. You can it directly to generate ideas for what comes next by asking it to complete a summarization of the plot.
  - weeksie 6y ago
    I understand the thought, and if you are unfamiliar with the process of writing a novel it makes some intuitive sense. If that method were effective, we would not have to wait for a machine learning algo to make use of it. There has rarely been a time in our literate world where encyclopedic catalogues of plots and plot devices haven't been available. If one could throw a dart at Polti's 36 dramatic situations to understand their story better, or write their way out of a jam then I'd be more inclined to believe that you could use GPT-3 to muddy your way through a draft. This is not the case, however. // Edit, addendum: If I had GPT-3 generate a synopsis for me, based on a corpus of my work (let's say) I would have before me a framework that loosely adhered to my conventions and internal logic, however it would still be deep in that uncanny valley as any longer story from GPT-3 ends up being. The bulk of the work would be in reconceptualizing the generated synopsis into something that contained real, cohesive themes and character development. The project itself would likely be as much work as writing from scratch, but would also be an art project of sorts. Novels are far more complex than most people assume. If you compare to movies or television, you have to take direction, cinematography, and production into account, rather than just the screenplay. Maybe that sort of thing can be delegated to a GPT like algorithm, maybe GPT-4 will obsolete the novelist and the auteur, but I kinda doubt it.
- reidjs 6y ago
  > I do believe you could replace 95% of the comedy accounts on Twitter though. I have yet to see GPT-3 write something that's funny because it's clever and not because it's absurd or ridiculous. But maybe that's 95% of twitter's comedy (I don't read twitter).
  - weeksie 6y ago
    That's exactly why I limited it to twitter comics, the form relies heavily on non-sequitur.

weeksie 6y ago

I like the idea of using generated dialog for NPCs in those kinds of circumstances where dynamic dialog makes sense. As an author I can assure you that writers block is a different animal. Being blocked on fiction happens because you don't know what comes next, and no amount of generative help will clarify a story. Novels aren't written one paragraph at a time, moving inexorably forward. Generating another sentence to get over the hump would only push a lost novice even farther into the wilderness. I do believe you could replace 95% of the comedy accounts on Twitter though.

deep_etcetera 6y ago
I don't really understand your point, you don't have to use it to generate the next sentence or paragraph of your story. You can it directly to generate ideas for what comes next by asking it to complete a summarization of the plot.
- weeksie 6y ago
  I understand the thought, and if you are unfamiliar with the process of writing a novel it makes some intuitive sense. If that method were effective, we would not have to wait for a machine learning algo to make use of it. There has rarely been a time in our literate world where encyclopedic catalogues of plots and plot devices haven't been available. If one could throw a dart at Polti's 36 dramatic situations to understand their story better, or write their way out of a jam then I'd be more inclined to believe that you could use GPT-3 to muddy your way through a draft. This is not the case, however. // Edit, addendum: If I had GPT-3 generate a synopsis for me, based on a corpus of my work (let's say) I would have before me a framework that loosely adhered to my conventions and internal logic, however it would still be deep in that uncanny valley as any longer story from GPT-3 ends up being. The bulk of the work would be in reconceptualizing the generated synopsis into something that contained real, cohesive themes and character development. The project itself would likely be as much work as writing from scratch, but would also be an art project of sorts. Novels are far more complex than most people assume. If you compare to movies or television, you have to take direction, cinematography, and production into account, rather than just the screenplay. Maybe that sort of thing can be delegated to a GPT like algorithm, maybe GPT-4 will obsolete the novelist and the auteur, but I kinda doubt it.
reidjs 6y ago
> I do believe you could replace 95% of the comedy accounts on Twitter though. I have yet to see GPT-3 write something that's funny because it's clever and not because it's absurd or ridiculous. But maybe that's 95% of twitter's comedy (I don't read twitter).
- weeksie 6y ago
  That's exactly why I limited it to twitter comics, the form relies heavily on non-sequitur.