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In improv that's a technique to collaboratively build a world/scene by adding constraints with no preparation. It does not apply to standup comedy.
by BurningFrog 4y ago
In improv that's a technique to collaboratively build a world/scene by adding constraints with no preparation.
It does not apply to standup comedy.
- pessimizer 4y agoGPT-3 is actually doing improv, not performing jokes. If it were really Seinfeld, it would be paying writers and scribbling notes down in a pocket notebook while golfing. i.e. It's not Seinfeld, it's an improv guy who you just asked to "Do Seinfeld."
- CharlesW 4y ago> GPT-3 is actually doing improv, not performing jokes. This is the kind of anthropomorphism that I'm consistently surprised to read from people with a technical background.
- pessimizer 4y agoNah. It's an whatever the opposite of that is, directed at the people who do improv. Improv is just a series of associative, impulsive reactions to stimuli - exactly what these systems are doing, following a series of words with the first (most strongly connected) utterances that come to mind. It could seem like anthropomorphism if you don't think about it, but it's not anthropomorphism to say robots walk just because humans also walk.
- CharlesW 4y agoYes, if you dehumanize human creativity to "just a series of associative, impulsive reactions to stimuli", then computers can think and GPT-3 is sentient. > …it's not anthropomorphism to say robots walk just because humans also walk. But it is to say that robots "do improv". Could GPT-3 mimic something that looks like improv by remixing an enormous corpus of human-created improv? Certainly not well, as we've all seen in non-cherry-picked GPT-3 output.
- djmips 4y agoSeinfeld wrote his own stand-up. The whole premise is Seinfeld doing his comedy club routine, not Seinfeld the show.