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> yet I shan't smite thee, for thou art already burdened by thine own misconception That is actually hilarious.

by piker 3y ago

notahacker 3y ago
yeah, that reads like a Terry Pratchett version of a religious text I'm not as impressed with what happens if I ask it to respond in the style of Terry Pratchett. Clearly some important texts missing from ChatGPT's corpus! > Ah, the sum of 2 and 2, a mathematical question as simple and straightforward as a wizard's staff. The answer, my friend, is 4. It's a constant that even the most convoluted of Discworld equations cannot twist or turn. Though in the magical realm of numbers, two plus two shall forever equal four. Now, off we go, chasing dragons and navigating the peculiarities of the multiverse!
- ethbr0 3y ago
  A lot of Terry Pratchett is higher-order humor (references between alternate meanings of words), which seems hard for a general purpose LLM to grok. Hence you get noun soup.
  - notahacker 3y ago
    Oh, I'd expect an LLM to fail to imitate the higher order humour (I'd probably answer the question with a troll failing to count on his fingers, an Igor offering to lend a hand and a pocket device containing a very annoying imp or a room-sized magical calculating device from Unseen University yielding the answer in the form of a very argumentative chatbot, possibly called something that rhymes with Bing.) But the tone ChatGPT uses is just odd like it's unable to pattern match Pratchett's prose at all so it just goes for a non-standard conversational tone it associates with "style", and throws in vague references to Discworld and dragons and multiverses rather than references to characters because the only thing in its "Terry Pratchett" data is a handful of words scraped from book blurbs which suggests it has a high conceptual overlap with "fantasy". I want someone to train an LLM on Discworld now...
g_delgado14 3y ago
It's just a straight-up amazing burn

> yet I shan't smite thee, for thou art already burdened by thine own misconception That is actually hilarious.

by piker 3y ago

> yet I shan't smite thee, for thou art already burdened by thine own misconception That is actually hilarious.

yeah, that reads like a Terry Pratchett version of a religious text I'm not as impressed with what happens if I ask it to respond in the style of Terry Pratchett. Clearly some important texts missing from ChatGPT's corpus! > Ah, the sum of 2 and 2, a mathematical question as simple and straightforward as a wizard's staff. The answer, my friend, is 4. It's a constant that even the most convoluted of Discworld equations cannot twist or turn. Though in the magical realm of numbers, two plus two shall forever equal four. Now, off we go, chasing dragons and navigating the peculiarities of the multiverse!

ethbr0 3y ago
A lot of Terry Pratchett is higher-order humor (references between alternate meanings of words), which seems hard for a general purpose LLM to grok. Hence you get noun soup.
- notahacker 3y ago
  Oh, I'd expect an LLM to fail to imitate the higher order humour (I'd probably answer the question with a troll failing to count on his fingers, an Igor offering to lend a hand and a pocket device containing a very annoying imp or a room-sized magical calculating device from Unseen University yielding the answer in the form of a very argumentative chatbot, possibly called something that rhymes with Bing.) But the tone ChatGPT uses is just odd like it's unable to pattern match Pratchett's prose at all so it just goes for a non-standard conversational tone it associates with "style", and throws in vague references to Discworld and dragons and multiverses rather than references to characters because the only thing in its "Terry Pratchett" data is a handful of words scraped from book blurbs which suggests it has a high conceptual overlap with "fantasy". I want someone to train an LLM on Discworld now...

g_delgado14 3y ago

It's just a straight-up amazing burn