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"Fair thee well." This sentence made me doubt the whole thing. That's not a mistake GPT-3 would make -- but a human would. How can one know if GPT-3 really wr
by dr_dshiv 6y ago
"Fair thee well."
This sentence made me doubt the whole thing. That's not a mistake GPT-3 would make -- but a human would.
How can one know if GPT-3 really wrote something? Is there a starting seed or something that would allow the same response to follow the initial prompt? Or are we in positronic computing territory, beyond deterministic computing outcomes?
- TeMPOraL 6y agoGPT-3 isn't doing any thinking here. It's a glorified Markov Chain trained on the corpus of Reddit. Its output is pieces of random Reddit comments, mixed and matched to maximize the metric of "how likely are such words to appear after the prompt given".
- Tenoke 6y agoIt's neither anywhere as simple as a Markov Chain nor is the training dataset reddit comments (tho there are some in there).
- dicytea 6y ago>That's not a mistake GPT-3 would make -- but a human would. Where did you think GPT learned it from? ;) https://www.ruralmessenger.com/blogs/fair-thee-well-good-sir/ https://www.ruralmessenger.com/blogs/fair-thee-well-good-sir... https://www.amazon.com/Fair-Thee-Well-Nathan-Jones/dp/069241312X https://www.amazon.com/Fair-Thee-Well-Nathan-Jones/dp/069241... https://www.amazon.com/Symphony-Fair-Thee-Well-Requiem/dp/B006MBV2JE https://www.amazon.com/Symphony-Fair-Thee-Well-Requiem/dp/B0... https://soundcloud.com/ozwaldmusic/fair-thee-well https://soundcloud.com/ozwaldmusic/fair-thee-well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCIRgihMJlg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCIRgihMJlg
- dr_dshiv 6y agoNo doubt people make this mistake. But do you see other common spelling errors? I don't. Further, google n-grams show that "fare thee well" is orders of magnitude more common. So I'm skeptical this was machine generated.