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I feel like we’re now arguing not over whether submarines can swim, but over whether the stroke that they’re doing would really count as good technique or not.
by taneq 4y ago
I feel like we’re now arguing not over whether submarines can swim, but over whether the stroke that they’re doing would really count as good technique or not.
- sfpotter 4y agoThis analogy doesn't make any sense. Obviously submarines don't do any stroke at all. In this case, ChatGPT is being told to deliberately replicate a particular style of poetry. For what it's worth, its poetry is bad, and is nothing like Shapespeare. If you don't have an ear for poetry and wouldn't recognize the work of major poets, if you ask ChatGPT to replicate a particular style then you aren't actually in a good position to assess whether it did so particularly well.
- dinkumthinkum 4y agoWell, I mean a human English professor could mimic Shakespeare to a greater or lesser degree and this doesn’t in any sense other than it rhymes and sometimes deals with same/similar subject matter. A lot of ink has been spilled about this signaling the coming AGI or the end of knowledge work but there has been precious little critical discussion about the horizon of this type of technology. The technology is clear very powerful and advanced but I don’t think there is a problem with those asking for breathless claims to be substantiated.