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Tbh I found it hugely underwhelming. It just generates random text; it’s not much different from the old Markov ones, except slower.
by trasz 4y ago
Tbh I found it hugely underwhelming. It just generates random text; it’s not much different from the old Markov ones, except slower.
- thatjoeoverthr 4y agoI copy pasted a database schema, described a query involving multiple tables and asked it to write using PostgreSQL. It did it. If I can do this locally with some existing kit, I would love to hear your recommendation.
- trasz 4y agoOracle Query Builder, for example, but there were dozens of tools like this over the past couple of decades. Except of course that those tools are at least somewhat dependable in what they output, because they were created to generate queries, not a roughly human-looking random text.
- colejohnson66 4y agoMarkov chains look like absolute gibberish almost all the time whereas GPT-2/3 (especially 3) generate natural sounding sentences. If you think they’re equivalent in capability, you haven’t spend any time using GPT-3.
- trasz 4y agoThey are more naturally sounding, sure, but semantically it’s the same - there are no signs of any intelligent thought there, it’s all gibberish that just happens to match patterns it was trained against. You could imagine a bot which takes your question, googles it, and then assembles the answer based on random pieces from millions of search results that happen to match the syntactical structure of the sentence - and you wouldn’t really be that far off.
- thatjoeoverthr 4y agoSo make the bot. I paste in SAT reading comprehension questions including whole short stories and GPT3 gets them right. It’s not gibberish. It’s not even just cogent. Go throw your bot together and Show HN. I’ll wait.
- trasz 4y ago>I paste in SAT reading comprehension questions including whole short stories and GPT3 gets them right. It’s not gibberish. Can you show me? As in, paste the question here?
- mr_toad 4y ago> there are no signs of any intelligent thought there, it’s all gibberish that just happens to match patterns it was trained against I meet people that regurgitate what they’ve heard on Facebook all the time, are you suggesting there is no intelligent thought there either?
- mort96 4y agoAre you implying that those people literally never do anything other than regurgitate stuff from Facebook? Because yeah, such a person could probably be described as not having intelligence, but I also have never met or heard of such a person.
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