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What's the cliche way to complete: "Here is a list of 10 things that have nothing in common:" ? Ask GPT this and it comes up with a pretty good list (a pineap
by ianbicking 4y ago
What's the cliche way to complete:
"Here is a list of 10 things that have nothing in common:" ?
Ask GPT this and it comes up with a pretty good list (a pineapple, the color blue, the taste of coffee...). Ask yourself this same question and you can come up with a pretty good list... but it's also surprisingly hard.
There are ways we can increase our creativity and tangential thinking. Brainstorming lists, exploring opposites, free association, etc. A lot of these also work with GPT. Which is itself a strange thought... is GPT mimicking us or is there an attribute of cognition which we share?
Anyway, while it takes work and exploration to figure this out, I've yet to hit a wall, so I am pretty optimistic about GPT generally. But it does involve a mixture of prompt and algorithm and human intervention.
- ianbicking 4y agoAlso I should add: ask for what you want. You want weird characters? Say "give me weird characters." Be careful about your phrasing, you may be implicitly asking for hack results. Sometimes when you ask for something you'll get a too-literal response, like "more fraught with internal tension" and it will say "Anna is fraught with internal tension." But you can usually change the phrasing to fix that, like "show examples of how the character is fraught with internal tension."