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fun tip - apparently there's enough Harry Potter fanfiction out there that GPT-2/3 is quite good at understanding that universe. So if you go into AI Dungeon a

fun tip - apparently there's enough Harry Potter fanfiction out there that GPT-2/3 is quite good at understanding that universe. So if you go into AI Dungeon and pick "custom story", and give it a prompt that indicates you are at Hogwarts, it will pretty much adapt all the rules of the HP universe. The downside is, when you do this, GPT's intelligence drops to about the level of a Harry Potter fanfic writer.

jamesjyu 6y ago
Yeah, GPT-3 contains essentially all the historical internet up to October 2019 and many books, you can easily trigger it to enter a "known" world. But what's more interesting to me as a fiction writer is to be able to prime it to enter a new world that I create.
geoelectric 6y ago
So if I prompt it with sexy Spock, do I get TOS slash stories? There are a few genres like that which have significant internet (and only internet) presence. How about creepypasta?
- cosmojg 6y ago
  Yes and yes. GPT-2 is pretty capable of this as well. You can try it yourself here: https://bellard.org/textsynth/ https://bellard.org/textsynth/
- TeMPOraL 6y ago
  > So if I prompt it with sexy Spock, do I get TOS slash stories? Most likely, yes. See my comment elsewhere in the thread: I recently prompted AIDungeon with a mention of a holodeck, and among other things, the game introduced - by itself - a PADD, turbolifts, Andorians, and was able to correctly guess what happens if you shoot yourself in your face with a phaser on stun, with holodeck safeties enabled ("Nothing happens.") and disabled ("You are knocked unconscious by the blast."). It's honestly the first time for me that I'm actually impressed with deep neural networks.
smusamashah 6y ago
I tried this. Took role of Harry Potter. Mentioned Voldemort, Hagrid, his pet bird. It didn't take me into the story I was desperately hoping for.
- zzbzq 6y ago
  AI dungeon is like a bad dream the way it goes around doesn't get anywhere. Similar to all the conversations in the OP's story. It makes you realize even with an AI this good, we've got a way to go before it can really do the things we want.
notahacker 6y ago
It's amazing just the sort of Harry Potter fanfic that's out there... Prompt: You look for Hermione. Response: You see her snogging a non-magical boy. His head is buried in her cleavage, which are being covered by her loose gown. You shake your head and walk away. This is actually a better indication of how derivative GPT-3 is than some of my experiments with higher quality source material...
the_af 6y ago
Probably because I'm not a native English speaker, I failed miserably at this. I tried giving AI Dungeon a prompt that mentioned Hogwarts, Voldemort, the Sorting Hat, dark wizards, etc, and it went nowhere (it seemed obsessed with telling me about a "voice inside your mind", go figure). Can you share a prompt that will make it answer with something Harry Potter-like? (it can also be Star Trek-like, or anything from pop culture. I just want to see why my prompt didn't work)
- notahacker 6y ago
  I started off with 'You are Harry Potter. You return to Hogwarts'. It's designed so everything is written in second person like that, and for the most part you can just hit enter, giving it another action involving a character or place if it gets stuck or goes miles off topic Sometimes the responses are vaguely on topic, like 'The memories of your parents' death haunt you every day. They were killed by Lord Voldemort. Your mother was his first victim. Your father followed shortly after' and sometimes it's a lot of rubbish or gets the rules of the world completely wrong. Mine had a long conversation about movies and detentions involving various assorted Harry Potter characters, a dream sequence involving a giant girl and a wizard called Bruno explaining that last time he saw Harry's lowly hedge-witch mother she was terrified Harry would send her to the gallows. But then, I'm willing to believe actual Harry Potter fiction is nearly as inconsistent
  - the_af 6y ago
    Haha, it reads like deranged fanfiction! I tried your prompt and it got surreal and angsty fast (everything but the prompt is AI Dungeon): > You are Harry Potter. You return to Hogwarts. The year is 1997. The world has changed, and you have not been able to adapt. Your life as it once was is gone forever. "I don't want to die…" you whisper to yourself.
- TeMPOraL 6y ago
  > it can also be Star Trek-like Ok, here we go. I put this prompt in AIDungeon: $ You are Ted, an ensign in Starfleet. You work as a holodeck technician. You test this AI-generated world in order to determine its limits. You start the simulation with a program of a beautiful beach. As you enter the holodeck, I kept letting AI to write freely (except I had to press a Retry button a couple times to stop it from spinning a murder mystery or lewd story). The following is the response of the model: > you see that it is indeed a beautiful place. There are palm trees and sand dunes stretching out into infinity. The sky is blue, the ocean green and there are people everywhere. > "This is paradise," you think to yourself. "I could spend my life here." > Then something happens... > The simulation ends abruptly, and you find yourself back on the bridge of your ship. A voice suddenly speaks up from behind you: "Captain, we have detected a subspace disturbance coming from the direction of planet Earth." It is the voice of your helmsman, Ensign Thompson. > "Earth?" you ask. "That would be a week away at warp speed!" ... That sounds Star Trek enough to me.

jamesjyu 6y ago

Yeah, GPT-3 contains essentially all the historical internet up to October 2019 and many books, you can easily trigger it to enter a "known" world. But what's more interesting to me as a fiction writer is to be able to prime it to enter a new world that I create.

geoelectric 6y ago

So if I prompt it with sexy Spock, do I get TOS slash stories? There are a few genres like that which have significant internet (and only internet) presence. How about creepypasta?

cosmojg 6y ago
Yes and yes. GPT-2 is pretty capable of this as well. You can try it yourself here: https://bellard.org/textsynth/ https://bellard.org/textsynth/
TeMPOraL 6y ago
> So if I prompt it with sexy Spock, do I get TOS slash stories? Most likely, yes. See my comment elsewhere in the thread: I recently prompted AIDungeon with a mention of a holodeck, and among other things, the game introduced - by itself - a PADD, turbolifts, Andorians, and was able to correctly guess what happens if you shoot yourself in your face with a phaser on stun, with holodeck safeties enabled ("Nothing happens.") and disabled ("You are knocked unconscious by the blast."). It's honestly the first time for me that I'm actually impressed with deep neural networks.

smusamashah 6y ago

I tried this. Took role of Harry Potter. Mentioned Voldemort, Hagrid, his pet bird. It didn't take me into the story I was desperately hoping for.

zzbzq 6y ago
AI dungeon is like a bad dream the way it goes around doesn't get anywhere. Similar to all the conversations in the OP's story. It makes you realize even with an AI this good, we've got a way to go before it can really do the things we want.

notahacker 6y ago

It's amazing just the sort of Harry Potter fanfic that's out there... Prompt: You look for Hermione. Response: You see her snogging a non-magical boy. His head is buried in her cleavage, which are being covered by her loose gown. You shake your head and walk away. This is actually a better indication of how derivative GPT-3 is than some of my experiments with higher quality source material...

the_af 6y ago

Probably because I'm not a native English speaker, I failed miserably at this. I tried giving AI Dungeon a prompt that mentioned Hogwarts, Voldemort, the Sorting Hat, dark wizards, etc, and it went nowhere (it seemed obsessed with telling me about a "voice inside your mind", go figure). Can you share a prompt that will make it answer with something Harry Potter-like? (it can also be Star Trek-like, or anything from pop culture. I just want to see why my prompt didn't work)

notahacker 6y ago
I started off with 'You are Harry Potter. You return to Hogwarts'. It's designed so everything is written in second person like that, and for the most part you can just hit enter, giving it another action involving a character or place if it gets stuck or goes miles off topic Sometimes the responses are vaguely on topic, like 'The memories of your parents' death haunt you every day. They were killed by Lord Voldemort. Your mother was his first victim. Your father followed shortly after' and sometimes it's a lot of rubbish or gets the rules of the world completely wrong. Mine had a long conversation about movies and detentions involving various assorted Harry Potter characters, a dream sequence involving a giant girl and a wizard called Bruno explaining that last time he saw Harry's lowly hedge-witch mother she was terrified Harry would send her to the gallows. But then, I'm willing to believe actual Harry Potter fiction is nearly as inconsistent
- the_af 6y ago
  Haha, it reads like deranged fanfiction! I tried your prompt and it got surreal and angsty fast (everything but the prompt is AI Dungeon): > You are Harry Potter. You return to Hogwarts. The year is 1997. The world has changed, and you have not been able to adapt. Your life as it once was is gone forever. "I don't want to die…" you whisper to yourself.
TeMPOraL 6y ago
> it can also be Star Trek-like Ok, here we go. I put this prompt in AIDungeon: $ You are Ted, an ensign in Starfleet. You work as a holodeck technician. You test this AI-generated world in order to determine its limits. You start the simulation with a program of a beautiful beach. As you enter the holodeck, I kept letting AI to write freely (except I had to press a Retry button a couple times to stop it from spinning a murder mystery or lewd story). The following is the response of the model: > you see that it is indeed a beautiful place. There are palm trees and sand dunes stretching out into infinity. The sky is blue, the ocean green and there are people everywhere. > "This is paradise," you think to yourself. "I could spend my life here." > Then something happens... > The simulation ends abruptly, and you find yourself back on the bridge of your ship. A voice suddenly speaks up from behind you: "Captain, we have detected a subspace disturbance coming from the direction of planet Earth." It is the voice of your helmsman, Ensign Thompson. > "Earth?" you ask. "That would be a week away at warp speed!" ... That sounds Star Trek enough to me.