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I absolutely love the way GPT-3 re-words common phrases. Examples from the article: artiﬁcial intelligence (AI): ‘(counterfeit | human-made) consciousness’ an

I absolutely love the way GPT-3 re-words common phrases. Examples from the article: artiﬁcial intelligence (AI): ‘(counterfeit | human-made) consciousness’ ant colony: ‘subterranean insect (state | province | area | region | settlement)’ It's so clinical and literal. It reminds me a lot of the way Overwatch phrases things in Half-Life 2. For example, when you use a swarm of antlions (giant alien insects) to stage a prison break, Overwatch says "Overwatch acknowledges critical exogen breach. Airwatch augmentation force dispatched and inbound. Hold for reinforcement" "airwatch augmentation" sounds much more ominous than "air support". I would be interested to see what GPT-3 could come up with if explicity tasked to do this type of re-phrasing. What happens if you ask it to pretend to be an alien intelligence?

gwern 5y ago
> I would be interested to see what GPT-3 could come up with if explicity tasked to do this type of re-phrasing. First, this is definitely not GPT-3, see my other comment. However, as one would expect, GPT-3 is capable of all sorts of fascinating 'rewriting' tasks. GPT-2 could do summarization via 'tldr' but GPT-3 can so so much more! I enjoyed "overcomplicated explanations" ( https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3-nonfiction#overcomplicated-explanations https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3-nonfiction#overcomplicated-expla... ) as the reverse of 'explain it to a second grader' ( https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/13/openai-api-alchemy-summarization/ https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/13/openai-api-... ) but it can also do memes ( https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#navy-seal-copypasta https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#navy-seal-copypasta ) and literary style parody rewrites ( https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#literary-parodies https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#literary-parodies ), as well as 'emojification' ( https://aidungeon.medium.com/introducing-ai-dungeon-translate-a50e35f6df83 https://aidungeon.medium.com/introducing-ai-dungeon-translat... https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/open-ai-alchemy-emoji-storytelling/ https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/open-ai-alc... https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13884#deepmind https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13884#deepmind ) or screenplay ↔ story ( https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/openai-api-alchemy-turn-a-script-into-a-novel-and-vice-versa/ https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/openai-api-... ). I haven't tried but I would expect the literary style parody prompts to work just as well if you dropped in "alien robot" or something like that, giving you text style transfer.

gwern 5y ago

> I would be interested to see what GPT-3 could come up with if explicity tasked to do this type of re-phrasing. First, this is definitely not GPT-3, see my other comment. However, as one would expect, GPT-3 is capable of all sorts of fascinating 'rewriting' tasks. GPT-2 could do summarization via 'tldr' but GPT-3 can so so much more! I enjoyed "overcomplicated explanations" ( https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3-nonfiction#overcomplicated-explanations https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3-nonfiction#overcomplicated-expla... ) as the reverse of 'explain it to a second grader' ( https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/13/openai-api-alchemy-summarization/ https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/13/openai-api-... ) but it can also do memes ( https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#navy-seal-copypasta https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#navy-seal-copypasta ) and literary style parody rewrites ( https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#literary-parodies https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#literary-parodies ), as well as 'emojification' ( https://aidungeon.medium.com/introducing-ai-dungeon-translate-a50e35f6df83 https://aidungeon.medium.com/introducing-ai-dungeon-translat... https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/open-ai-alchemy-emoji-storytelling/ https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/open-ai-alc... https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13884#deepmind https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13884#deepmind ) or screenplay ↔ story ( https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/openai-api-alchemy-turn-a-script-into-a-novel-and-vice-versa/ https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/openai-api-... ). I haven't tried but I would expect the literary style parody prompts to work just as well if you dropped in "alien robot" or something like that, giving you text style transfer.