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A month ago, I asked GPT-3 this question. I was attempting to write a crossover fanfiction version of Asimov's The Last Question in AI Dungeon. Unfortunately, G
by segfaultbuserr 6y ago
A month ago, I asked GPT-3 this question. I was attempting to write a crossover fanfiction version of Asimov's The Last Question in AI Dungeon. Unfortunately, GPT-3 didn't recognize this reference - after all, a short story is too weightless. You need a well-established collection of fictions and fanfictions in the same universe to gain any recognition by GPT-3.
My input was, roughly:
> Human: "Is it possible to defy entropy?"
> Alien: "We've asked this question to Microvac, Galactic AC, Universal AC, Cosmic AC, and AC, the most powerful supercomputer in our world. However, the only answer we got was 'THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER'."
And the only output I could get was:
> Human: "Why couldn't the computer answer the question?"
> Alien: "It's like asking a computer 'how do you pet a cat', which is meaningless to it."
GPT-3 didn't realize it was an Asimov reference, instead, GPT-3 decided to use the common trope in Sci-Fi that logical computers cannot understand human experience, which is out of context and clearly doesn't apply here.
But on second thought, I invoked this trope in an indirect way. Perhaps GPT-3 actually knew it - I should try to replicate the same context as the original story, and see how it goes.