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This gives me an idea. You know how you can break writing down into 2 phases: creative and edit? What if you did the creative part, braindumping all your idea

by meken 5y ago

This gives me an idea. You know how you can break writing down into 2 phases: creative and edit? What if you did the creative part, braindumping all your ideas and vision into a word document. Then had an AI edit your incoherent story into engaging prose. I find the creative part easy, but the editing part tedious. Like, a doctor I know asked me to write a review for him. I did the braindump part, but have been procrastinating on the edit part.

telotortium 5y ago
Unfortunately, GPT-3, CoPilot, AlphaCode, etc., also excel more at the creative part (helped out by their enormous training database, which saves you from doing the Google search to match your high-level description to examples), but they're still dogshit at editing, because that is the part that actually requires a detailed understanding of the text. So the princess is still in the next castle.
- meken 5y ago
  Hmm it intuitively seems like the editing part should be the easy part, because the output is basically a template, and you just need to fill it in, and tweak it a little bit… I get with code it’s a bit less so, but still, there are plenty of design patterns which basically cover a lot of the output space…
  - MauranKilom 5y ago
    The context window of GPT-3 is vanishingly small compared to any novel-like work. GPT-3 will happily invent descriptions of characters and objects that contradict what it suggested three pages ago. Not saying it can't help you with getting an idea what to describe, but this is the kind of "editing" that it won't be good at.
8note 5y ago
I think these tools push in the other direction. You get the tool to brain dump for you, then you edit after
- meken 5y ago
  I haven’t used copilot, but don’t you specify what you want first, in comment form, then copilot spits it out? I get that you have to do subsequent editing, because it’s not perfect.

by meken 5y ago

telotortium 5y ago

Unfortunately, GPT-3, CoPilot, AlphaCode, etc., also excel more at the creative part (helped out by their enormous training database, which saves you from doing the Google search to match your high-level description to examples), but they're still dogshit at editing, because that is the part that actually requires a detailed understanding of the text. So the princess is still in the next castle.

meken 5y ago
Hmm it intuitively seems like the editing part should be the easy part, because the output is basically a template, and you just need to fill it in, and tweak it a little bit… I get with code it’s a bit less so, but still, there are plenty of design patterns which basically cover a lot of the output space…
- MauranKilom 5y ago
  The context window of GPT-3 is vanishingly small compared to any novel-like work. GPT-3 will happily invent descriptions of characters and objects that contradict what it suggested three pages ago. Not saying it can't help you with getting an idea what to describe, but this is the kind of "editing" that it won't be good at.

8note 5y ago

I think these tools push in the other direction. You get the tool to brain dump for you, then you edit after

meken 5y ago
I haven’t used copilot, but don’t you specify what you want first, in comment form, then copilot spits it out? I get that you have to do subsequent editing, because it’s not perfect.