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Huh, it generated a Wikipedia style page for the prompt "A sci-fi novel about a cat": > A sci-fi novel about a cat (Polish: Rzeczyca sztuki o małym kotle) is a

by dom96 4y ago

Huh, it generated a Wikipedia style page for the prompt "A sci-fi novel about a cat": > A sci-fi novel about a cat (Polish: Rzeczyca sztuki o małym kotle) is a 1978 novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. It was translated into English in 1982. > Plot Summary > The book is about a cat who is transported to another world, and finds out that it is not a world in the usual sense, but a world of pure information. The cat encounters several other beings from this world, who all seem to be different kinds of information, or rather data. Among them are the computer, the telephone, the Internet, and even the author of the book, Stanisław Lem. > The cat eventually returns to the world of its ancestors, and learns that he is not the only one who has been transported to the information world.

ss108 4y ago
Sounds dope
krick 4y ago
It is generally true with NNs that they often cannot admit they don't know something and will output some ridiculous prediction anyway, but I feel it is especially bad with language models, and ESPECIALLY bad with something like this "galactica". Forget that it's pretty bad in its predictions, even if it was not the case, you just cannot rely on it at all, when it can so nonchalantly produce some plausible bullshit. How can you even distinguish? This even sounds like something Lem would totally write. Except he just didn't. (And Polish "translation" isn't right, but I guess you couldn't tell if you don't speak any slavic language. And even then you might believe that "kotel" is "a cat" in Polish — who knows, plenty of weird discrepancies between languages!)
- morelisp 4y ago
  It's funny, this story sounds like something Lem might actually have written (perhaps just a little too twee), but someone going all-in on a book generator that produces descriptions like this but it's irretrievably shitty is also a story Lem would definitely have written.

by dom96 4y ago

ss108 4y ago

Sounds dope

krick 4y ago

It is generally true with NNs that they often cannot admit they don't know something and will output some ridiculous prediction anyway, but I feel it is especially bad with language models, and ESPECIALLY bad with something like this "galactica". Forget that it's pretty bad in its predictions, even if it was not the case, you just cannot rely on it at all, when it can so nonchalantly produce some plausible bullshit. How can you even distinguish? This even sounds like something Lem would totally write. Except he just didn't. (And Polish "translation" isn't right, but I guess you couldn't tell if you don't speak any slavic language. And even then you might believe that "kotel" is "a cat" in Polish — who knows, plenty of weird discrepancies between languages!)

morelisp 4y ago
It's funny, this story sounds like something Lem might actually have written (perhaps just a little too twee), but someone going all-in on a book generator that produces descriptions like this but it's irretrievably shitty is also a story Lem would definitely have written.