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Please write a paragraph from the point of view of thinker, writer, storyteller like George R R Martin who loves to enthusiastically express why he loves "writi

Please write a paragraph from the point of view of thinker, writer, storyteller like George R R Martin who loves to enthusiastically express why he loves "writing" Make sure to give lot of importance to Composition, cadence, vocabulary, repetition. It should all tie in together. Also make sure to include phrase "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" coined by Noam Chomsky in the most meaningful, appropriate, contextual way. It shouldn't be used carelessly. "I fucking love writing. Most people I know also fucking love writing, and I do mean love."

hammyhavoc 3y ago
On the one hand, very interesting at a technical level. However, on the other, it's cheesy, horribly unoriginal and bland in its output, and that doesn't just apply to just this example. Nothing I've seen from an LLM thus far would be winning any awards or get recommended by a critic. Structure-wise, the output is generally very formulaic, even with additional descriptors.
- jjk166 3y ago
  > Nothing I've seen from an LLM thus far would be winning any awards or get recommended by a critic. What paragraph have you written that won awards or was recommended by a critic? I have none to my name. These are tools whose goal is not to produce something superior to what any human could ever write, it is useful merely to improve upon what a typical person would write.
  - hammyhavoc 3y ago
    That's not the topic at hand, the greater implication is that people are saying LLMs are going to replace writers and writing as a whole because they are apparently as good as humans and apparently also more creative.
    - passion__desire 3y ago
      Stephen King writes about 6 pages a day or about 2000 words. Let's say that takes about 4-6 hours. Now imagine spending that much time with ChatGPT and guide it towards whatever goal you have in mind. It took me just 2 minutes to craft the prompt and ChatGPT did the rest. You do the math. Humans use other sense modalities and base their writing inspired from those experiences. If and when future models incorporate those modalities, we will see true "creativity" on full display. e.g. "Whipped by the wind, raindrops tapped unevenly at the window pane. As long as she remained silent, the old man looked into her eyes, saying nothing. Time marked its irregular pulse in her ears." - by Haruki Murakami. How do you expect a model to write this imagery if it hadn't experienced it?
      - hammyhavoc 3y ago
        Stephen King is expressing himself, he already knows what he wants to say before he writes it. "Guiding" something isn't the same as self-expression. Generative art, anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_art?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_art?wprov=sfla1
    - jjk166 3y ago
      Not a single person has claimed that 100% of all writing will be done by machine and that AI is already superior to the best writing ever done. LLMs will replace writers the way cars replaced horses. People still ride horses, and there are plenty of things horses can do that cars can't, but the typical person trying to go from A to B is probably not going to ride a horse there.

hammyhavoc 3y ago

On the one hand, very interesting at a technical level. However, on the other, it's cheesy, horribly unoriginal and bland in its output, and that doesn't just apply to just this example. Nothing I've seen from an LLM thus far would be winning any awards or get recommended by a critic. Structure-wise, the output is generally very formulaic, even with additional descriptors.

jjk166 3y ago
> Nothing I've seen from an LLM thus far would be winning any awards or get recommended by a critic. What paragraph have you written that won awards or was recommended by a critic? I have none to my name. These are tools whose goal is not to produce something superior to what any human could ever write, it is useful merely to improve upon what a typical person would write.
- hammyhavoc 3y ago
  That's not the topic at hand, the greater implication is that people are saying LLMs are going to replace writers and writing as a whole because they are apparently as good as humans and apparently also more creative.
  - passion__desire 3y ago
    Stephen King writes about 6 pages a day or about 2000 words. Let's say that takes about 4-6 hours. Now imagine spending that much time with ChatGPT and guide it towards whatever goal you have in mind. It took me just 2 minutes to craft the prompt and ChatGPT did the rest. You do the math. Humans use other sense modalities and base their writing inspired from those experiences. If and when future models incorporate those modalities, we will see true "creativity" on full display. e.g. "Whipped by the wind, raindrops tapped unevenly at the window pane. As long as she remained silent, the old man looked into her eyes, saying nothing. Time marked its irregular pulse in her ears." - by Haruki Murakami. How do you expect a model to write this imagery if it hadn't experienced it?
    - hammyhavoc 3y ago
      Stephen King is expressing himself, he already knows what he wants to say before he writes it. "Guiding" something isn't the same as self-expression. Generative art, anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_art?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_art?wprov=sfla1
  - jjk166 3y ago
    Not a single person has claimed that 100% of all writing will be done by machine and that AI is already superior to the best writing ever done. LLMs will replace writers the way cars replaced horses. People still ride horses, and there are plenty of things horses can do that cars can't, but the typical person trying to go from A to B is probably not going to ride a horse there.