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What kind of insights do you expect a machine to be able to extract? I passed your example to GPT-3, and got back results that seem about the same as I'd expect

What kind of insights do you expect a machine to be able to extract? I passed your example to GPT-3, and got back results that seem about the same as I'd expect from a human: PROMPT: > This is a test of reading comprehension. Read the following passage and answer the questions below in order. > Passage: > "You are engaged in a long conversation with someone, perhaps a friend of a friend who you met for lunch. At some point in the conversation they mention that they have a startup and are seeking someone like you. This revelation colors the whole conversation from that point onward. Indeed, each sentence colors the conversation from moment to moment" > Questions: > 1. What is the "revelation" referenced? > 2. What do you think the person is hoping to achieve by inviting you to lunch? > Answers: GENERATED OUTPUT: > 1. The revelation is that the person has a startup and is seeking someone like the reader. > 2. It is possible that the person is hoping to recruit the reader for their startup.

goatlover 4y ago
And if you ask it, "What does it mean for the conversation to be colored?", what does it answer with? Or to be tricky, if you were to ask it, "What color was the conversation from one moment to the next?", what would it say?
- abrax3141 4y ago
  Oh. Sorry. I seem to have taken the conversation off in a different direction than I had intended. (Foreshadow: The previous sentence is carefully shaped!) When I said "color" I didn't mean to be indicating qualia, although there is that too. What I meant to be indicating is just that each discourse contribution folds into a semantically sensible whole that one can speak (only metaphorically here) as the color of the conversation. One might say (to oneself, if one had a mind to, or was asked): "Oh, but hold on, I didn't realize that this was an interview. I thought that [our mutual friend] just thought that we would get along well. But now that I see it's really an interview, and you're the CEO, well, that makes this a very different situation, and I'll have to put on my 'interview with the boss' face..." and thus like. Again, I don't mean that you would say this explicitly, nor could you, probably, unless you were pressed to do so, in which case you couldn't really completely explain all the nuances, most likely. Nb. (per foreshadow above), each contribution in this, or any discourse, "colors" (or perhaps rather, kneeds together, if you prefer a cooking metaphor) an ongoing collage of situational understanding which comes together to direct, for better or worse, the ongoing complexities of the discourse. But, and here I want to be perfectly clear: Not in a fully forward-going way, because then you'll simply say: well the blah blah state of the whole blah blah network incorporates all that, like Dall-E, etc. melding together everything and smearing it into something sensible. But that's not how people work! In constructing their next action (e.g., sentence) they foreground some aspects of the composed whole, and background others in a goal-directed manner...at least if they're not too drunk.
  - goatlover 4y ago
    That's clever. But my response is colored such that I wonder if you didn't generate that text by using some of the other comments, shaping it such that I can't tell whether you're on the way to inebriation or just messing with my head. Or perhaps composing a point. In which case, I myself could use a drink.
    - abrax3141 4y ago
      Okay, lol literally! If only I could click the up arrow twice, this definitely would deserve it! :-)

goatlover 4y ago

And if you ask it, "What does it mean for the conversation to be colored?", what does it answer with? Or to be tricky, if you were to ask it, "What color was the conversation from one moment to the next?", what would it say?

abrax3141 4y ago
Oh. Sorry. I seem to have taken the conversation off in a different direction than I had intended. (Foreshadow: The previous sentence is carefully shaped!) When I said "color" I didn't mean to be indicating qualia, although there is that too. What I meant to be indicating is just that each discourse contribution folds into a semantically sensible whole that one can speak (only metaphorically here) as the color of the conversation. One might say (to oneself, if one had a mind to, or was asked): "Oh, but hold on, I didn't realize that this was an interview. I thought that [our mutual friend] just thought that we would get along well. But now that I see it's really an interview, and you're the CEO, well, that makes this a very different situation, and I'll have to put on my 'interview with the boss' face..." and thus like. Again, I don't mean that you would say this explicitly, nor could you, probably, unless you were pressed to do so, in which case you couldn't really completely explain all the nuances, most likely. Nb. (per foreshadow above), each contribution in this, or any discourse, "colors" (or perhaps rather, kneeds together, if you prefer a cooking metaphor) an ongoing collage of situational understanding which comes together to direct, for better or worse, the ongoing complexities of the discourse. But, and here I want to be perfectly clear: Not in a fully forward-going way, because then you'll simply say: well the blah blah state of the whole blah blah network incorporates all that, like Dall-E, etc. melding together everything and smearing it into something sensible. But that's not how people work! In constructing their next action (e.g., sentence) they foreground some aspects of the composed whole, and background others in a goal-directed manner...at least if they're not too drunk.
- goatlover 4y ago
  That's clever. But my response is colored such that I wonder if you didn't generate that text by using some of the other comments, shaping it such that I can't tell whether you're on the way to inebriation or just messing with my head. Or perhaps composing a point. In which case, I myself could use a drink.
  - abrax3141 4y ago
    Okay, lol literally! If only I could click the up arrow twice, this definitely would deserve it! :-)