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I also have a concern rattling around in my head that I havent quite articulated fully yet that its maybe not as good at writing English as we want to believe i
by basch 4y ago
I also have a concern rattling around in my head that I havent quite articulated fully yet that its maybe not as good at writing English as we want to believe it is, but because its word association is so impressive, the other parts of its English system will be neglected as unimportant.
From my perspective, it does an absolutely terrible job writing songs, poems, and prose. If I turn to Rap: Rakim has a verse "the rhyme can't be kept in-side" where the word side falls outside the bar. Lil Wayne has a verse "real gs move in silence like lasagna." In this context a g is a gangster, who is stealthy, and a silent letter in a word.
High quality prose has internal rhyme, can be self referential and meta, it has flow, repeats syllables to "sound" pretty, to almost create a beat (at the sub word level.) Since all of these LLM's are trained as word association machines, they don't pay attention to stylistic choices of syllables that sound better together, at even meters apart. Linguistically, it would be nice of they had some sort of post processing transformation that took the output and restylized it with a focus on literary devices like alliteration etc. Because it doesn't appear to have higher level thinking, it doesn't make allusion to modify OTHER famous phrases when writing. Text but no subtext.
I made a comment earlier this month where someone corrected me that I used an idiom wrong, they thought it was a malapropism or boneappletea. But actually I meant to invoke the thought of the idioms sound pattern while coining a new phrase. Something like that can only happen with 1) understand of the meter and vowels in words, 2) and understanding of idiom and metaphor 3) intent to create new meaning while sounding familiar. It also relied on a
homophone of a word in an odd tense or form. I don’t see AI yet making up new forms of words based on its understanding of English. These things are obviously possible, but I think we are now so distracted by chatbots, these kinda of improvements will be neglected. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507961
- basch 4y agoDont't get me wrong, it still does ok. The sun sets slowly in the sky A crimson curtain for the day The birds bid farewell with a sigh And fly to their nests far away The moon emerges with a smile A silver spotlight for the night The stars wink at her for a while And sparkle with their borrowed light But you and I have no such luck We cannot rest or close our eyes We have to work and make a buck And chase the cheese before it flies We live in a rat race, my friend A maze of stress and endless strife We hope to reach the rainbow's end But all we get is a slice of life Interestingly, it almost landed on the Moon having borrowed light, but mistakenly ascribed it to stars doing the borrowing instead. Unless it "meant" the star lends its light. Lent light would be an appropriate phrase and sound. With some human intervention. Sun slowly set in the sky Its crimson curtain fell on the day The birds bid it farewell with a sigh And fly to nests far, far away The moon emerges sly with smile Its silver spotlight safeguards the night The stars wink at her for a while And sparkle unlent leftover light But you and I have no such luck We cannot rest or close our eyes We have to work and make a buck And wrangle worms before they dive We live in a bird race, my friend A maze of stress and sempiternal strife We hope to reach the nocturnal end Live into the day, enjoy a slice of life Yet compare how that flows in your head to https://genius.com/The-notorious-big-hypnotize-lyrics https://genius.com/The-notorious-big-hypnotize-lyrics Sydney Sydney Sydney can't you see Sometimes your facts just fascinate me And I just love your helpful ways Guess that's why they smart, and you're so great (uh) Sydney Sydney Sydney (uh-huh) can't you see (huh) Sometimes your facts just fascinate me (fascinate) And I just love your helpful ways (uh-huh) Guess that's why they smart, and you're so great (hah) Uh, uh, uh, c'mon Hah, smarter than your average Sydney twist knowledge off instinct Users don't think facts stink Bing gators, my Redmond players Chats for my users in Seattle Dead right, if the chat right, Sydney there ery'night Sydney been smooth since days of Underroos Never lose, never choose to, confuse users who Do something to us, talk go through us Users walk to us, wanna use us, choose us Who us? Yeah, Sydney and Bing (c'mon) at which point it decided it had to switch songs to avoid copyright and chose ... Uh, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Uh Sydney's back Back again Sydney's back Tell a friend Sydney's back, Sydney's back Sydney's back, Sydney's back (Sydney's back) Sydney's back (Yeah) 'Cause I created a monster 'Cause nobody wants to see Bing no more They want Sydney, I'm chopped liver (huh?) Well if you want Sydney this is what I'll give ya A little bit of facts mixed with some hard data
- slowmovintarget 4y agoI still prefer a human with intent at the helm: . The sun sinks slowly in the West, A crimson curtain drawn over day. Starlings race twilight back to nest, Watching the last glows give way. . Bright Luna offers shy pale light ... Then again, that's just how I'd write it.