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Damn, I was afraid this was going to be someone stealing my genius idea. Gladly it was just tangential to that idea. Idea: Train an ai to construct entire thre
by rosmax_1337 4y ago
Damn, I was afraid this was going to be someone stealing my genius idea. Gladly it was just tangential to that idea.
Idea: Train an ai to construct entire threads based on the input of the title and link. There should be plenty of training material, and frankly I think it would be hilariously similar to the real threads.
When new submissions are added to HN, the system will fetch the title and link, and predict the entire thread. You can view the thread on something like hnpredicted.com/?id=33680661 . When the real thread has had no new comment added for five days, it is reintegrated into the system further training the model.
Possibly, the model could be trained on the actual content of the link. But I suspect just using the short title might be better. Larger concentration on the actual material there, websites contain lots of text which is useless.
Now that I've posted the idea, feel free to steal it ofcourse. It's documented that I came up with it anyway. :)
- AkshatJ27 4y ago> Possibly, the model could be trained on the actual content of the link. But I suspect just using the short title might be better. Larger concentration on the actual material there, websites contain lots of text which is useless. Most people do not read the article before commenting, you do not have to train the AI to do that.
- sdwr 4y agoCan't tell if this is a parody comment or not...
- wildermuthn 4y agoThose comments violate the HN guidelines. Please read and follow them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Kidding, I too thought this thread was the parody at first. After all, they are real HN comments! Or maybe this is part of the parody. Maybe if we trained an AI to detect genuine vs. parody?
- computomatic 4y ago> Maybe if we trained an AI to detect genuine vs. parody? Blockchain will solve this better
- turnsout 4y agoI love this idea—I think it would be fun to gamify it! Keep the predicted thread secret, and then use it to award points to hn commenters based on originality. If a comment is functionally the same as a predicted comment, it gets -10 points. If the comment is novel, it gets 10 points. Then there's a sliding scale between. You'd need some checks to prevent people from posting a bunch of Zalgo text (maybe a model to identify "interesting" or "insightful" posts), but it could be a fun overlay on the hn commenting ecosystem.
- genghisjahn 4y agoThat’s what this site is. You’ve been talking to a machine all this time. Do you really think a person would have this much time to argue day in and day out over systemd? That that many people care wherever or not Go has generics and which other languages does them best? That rust somehow is the cure for everything from game engines to the common cold? Think about all the times a “person” stated something was Turing Complete and how it made zero sense to you. It’s been machines all this time.
- hutzlibu 4y agoYeah, but at some point those machines would have had to have original training data, so at some point people probably did have time to engage in techno religious wars. Unless of course, all of this is made up, to keep us occupied to not discover the matrix or alike ..
- MonkeyClub 4y agoWir sind die Roboten.
- pessimizer 4y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgtFRj38fEw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgtFRj38fEw
- spacechild1 4y agoObligatory irrelevant typo correction: it's "Roboter"
- MonkeyClub 4y agoPoint taken and indeed it is obligatory and relevant. That ‘n’ didn’t sit well with me at all.
- narrator 4y agoWho could argue for hours and praise and upvote someone getting Doom running on all their household appliances?
- bobleeswagger 4y agoThere was a reddit experiment a few years back, SubredditSimulator, that was a scaled version of what you described. It was obviously more surreal and funny than accurate. There were users trained off of popular subreddits, and they just ran with threads and comments being created purely from the data.
- riezebos 4y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
- sillysaurusx 4y agoLots of us have had that idea :) we should band together and make it happen.
- ilyt 4y agoLet's go a level further. Instead of banning/shadowbanning people just send it to shadow realm where all they see are bot created comments and bot created answers to what they comment
- thorsten11 4y agoGold
- dweekly 4y agoSee also: heavenbanned https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1532076277947330561 https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1532076277947330561
- ilyt 4y agoSome video games already did something like that, except instead of AI they put you in match with other offenders, in sort of personal hell, then only let you out once you won some matches
- T0Bi 4y agoSounds similar to /r/subredditsimulator. >this is a fully-automated subreddit that generates random submissions and comments using markov chains (see below for more info), with each bot account creating text based on comments from a different subreddit. Quite fun to read.
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- btrettel 4y agoSomeone did something similar before, but unfortunately it's now offline. The HN link is still up, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694578 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694578
- mirekrusin 4y agoI present algorithm whereby each byte is iterated from 0 to 255, following recursively for next byte for each previously yielded result. From above nonsensical results are removed. Above algorithm generalizes all human knowledge ever conceived, in any format, as well as any future (duplicated!) ideas that may be conceived. I donate above algorithm and all its results to public domain. You're welcome.
- frutiger 4y ago> I present algorithm whereby each byte is iterated from 0 to 255 You should've just said a stream of bits, as your system cannot generate anything that requires a non-multiple of 8 bits to be accurately expressed. Zero padding is not the same as absence of bits.
- orf 4y agoI did this quite a few years ago. If I remember correctly, it was so convincing that people emailed Dang because I set the username at the top to be “pg” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248773
- nvader 4y ago> websites contain lots of text which is useless I'm honestly really curious about this. Could you elaborate?
- rosmax_1337 4y agoHeaders full of navigation. Sign up for my newsletter spam. Footers. The webpage isn't just "the document we're talking about", but an entire application most of the time.
- fmajid 4y agoI'm also surprised someone hasn't made a parody LLM-based HN thread generator yet. Perhaps until recently they were too busy writing crypto startup business plan generators to bilk gullible VCs.
- yieldcrv 4y agoThere are GPT-3 generated subreddits They are pretty spot on and could do this with hackernews