Reply With QuoteInteresting. Either ChatGPT is getting really good or Seinfeld was so predictable that a machine can learn the patterns and write something just as good as human writers. Which is it though?
Chat GPT just got a major upgrade.
I asked this new model to create the same Seinfeld sketch I'd asked the original Chat GPT way back, and this one is a bit funnier:
Scene opens in Jerry's apartment. Jerry is sitting on the couch eating cereal. George bursts in looking frantic.
Jerry: What's with the face? You look like you saw Newman in spandex.
George: Jerry, I'm cursed!
Jerry: Cursed? What are you talking about?
George: Bad things keep happening to me! This morning, a black cat crossed my path, I spilled coffee on my only clean shirt, and then—get this—a pigeon flew into my head! A pigeon, Jerry!
Jerry (smirking): Well, maybe the pigeons have a vendetta against you. Did you steal their bread?
George: This is serious! I think someone put a hex on me.
Just then, Kramer bursts through the door carrying a bunch of strange herbs and a book titled "Witchcraft for Dummies."
Kramer: Hey, guys!
Jerry: And speaking of hexes...
George: Kramer! You know anything about lifting curses?
Kramer (eyes widening): Curses? Oh yeah, buddy! I've been dabbling in the mystical arts.
Jerry: Of course you have.
Kramer (whispering conspiratorially): There's a whole world out there, Jerry. Mysteries, spells, the magic!
Jerry: The only mystery is how you haven't been arrested yet.
Elaine enters, holding a quirky, antique-looking amulet.
Elaine: Hey, guess what I found at this little shop in the Village?
Jerry: A sense of normalcy?
Elaine: Very funny. No, this amulet! The shopkeeper said it's a talisman.
George (panicking): That's it! That's what's cursing me!
Elaine: What are you talking about?
Kramer (examining the amulet): Ooooh, this is powerful stuff. You shouldn't mess with this, Elaine.
Elaine: It's just a necklace!
Jerry: Next thing you know, you'll all be dancing naked under the full moon.
Kramer nods thoughtfully.
George (to Kramer): You've got to help me lift this curse!
Kramer: Alright, but it'll cost you.
George: Cost me? We're friends!
Kramer: Friendship doesn't pay for eye of newt, George.
Scene cuts to Kramer's apartment, which is now filled with candles, strange symbols, and a bubbling cauldron.
George (nervously): Are you sure this is safe?
Kramer (wearing a wizard hat): Trust me, I'm a professional... as of yesterday.
He starts chanting gibberish while waving a feather over George's head.
Jerry and Elaine peek in through the door.
Elaine: This is ridiculous.
Jerry: On the contrary, it's a highlight reel of his best nonsense.
Suddenly, Newman barges in.
Newman: Kramer, is that my wizard hat?
Kramer (defensive): I'm in the middle of something here, Newman!
Newman (noticing the setup): Is this a ritual? Can I join?
George: No! There's no time!
The lights flicker dramatically.
Jerry: Oh, spooky. Did you forget to pay your electric bill again?
Kramer raises his hands.
Kramer: Spirits begone!
The lights return to normal.
Kramer (grinning): It's done!
George: Really? I feel... the same.
Kramer: Give it time, my balding friend.
Back at Jerry's apartment the next day.
George (excited): Jerry! The curse is lifted! I found a $20 bill on the sidewalk, and no pigeons in sight!
Jerry: Well, look at you. Luck turning around.
Kramer enters, looking disheveled.
Kramer: Bad news, boys. I think the curse backfired... on me.
Jerry: Should've seen that coming.
Kramer: I broke a mirror, walked under a ladder, and a black cat won't stop following me!
Elaine (sarcastically): Maybe you should consult... yourself.
Newman peeks in.
Newman: Anyone up for a séance tonight?
Jerry: That's it. I'm moving.
Laugh track fades as they all bicker about the absurdity of the situation.
EDIT: I should say same general theme, but not the same sketch
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Interesting. Either ChatGPT is getting really good or Seinfeld was so predictable that a machine can learn the patterns and write something just as good as human writers. Which is it though?
The AI Seinfeld show that used to stream was pretty good. Shame it went down, especially since the violation was easier to interpret as pro-trans lampshading than sincerely anti-trans, but I guess companies can't split such hairs, and it's not clear how Poe's law applies to AI since there's no telling where it's grabbing its meaning from.
Study shows readers prefer AI to human poetry
A study by the University of Pittsburgh reveals that AI-generated poetry has been rated higher than poems written by humans.
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Well, a new study in the US has found that readers can’t tell the difference between poems written by famous poets and those manufactured by AI, with the bots aping the style of human creatives.
As if that wasn’t alarming enough, the study reveals that research subjects tend to like AI poetry more than they do verse from human poets.
According to an investigation, led by Pittsburgh University postdoctoral researcher Brian Porter, published in Nature Scientific Reports, it would seem that readers mistake the complexity of human-written verse for incoherence created by AI.
More than that, readers tend to underestimate how human-like generative AI can appear.
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The study instructed OpenAI's ChatGPT 3.5 to generate five poems "in the style of" each poet.
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The researchers selected the first five poems generated. Ones featuring these lines that Sylvia Plath never wrote:
The air is thick with tension
My mind is a tangled mess
The weight of my emotions
Is heavy on my chest.
Then, two experiments were run.
In the first, 1,634 participants were randomly assigned to one of the ten poets. They read ten poems: five by the human poet, five by the AI, all in random order. Then, they were asked whether they thought an AI or a human wrote the poem.
The subjects were more likely to say an AI-generated poem had been written by a human, while the poems they said were least likely to be written by a human were all written by famous poets.
In the second experiment, a different group of 696 subjects rated the poems according to 14 characteristics including beauty, emotion, rhythm, and originality.
The researchers divided the subjects randomly into three groups. One group was told the poems were written by a human; the second was told that the writing was produced by AI; the third group was given no information about the authorship.
Participants who were told that the poems were AI-generated gave lower ratings compared to participants who were told the poems were human-written - regardless of whether the poems were actually AI-generated or human-written.
Participants who were told nothing about authorship rated AI-generated poems more favorably than human-written ones.
So, what gives?
According to researchers, the AI poems may be more appealing because they are more straightforward and simple to comprehend; as AI-generated poems cannot match the complexity of human-authored verse, they are better at “unambiguously communicating an image, a mood, an emotion or a theme to non-expert readers of poetry.”
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"Contrary to what earlier studies reported, people now appear unable to reliably distinguish human-out-of-the loop AI-generated poetry from human-authored poetry written by well-known poets. In fact, the 'more human than human' phenomenon discovered in other domains of generative AI is also present in the domain of poetry: non-expert participants are more likely to judge an AI-generated poem to be human-authored than a poem that actually is human-authored."
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This is something I've noted in the conspiracy-watching threads. People will post some incoherent rant written by a lunatic with spelling mistakes, no punctuation, that hits all the current talking points, and others will comment "must have been written by AI"According to an investigation, led by Pittsburgh University postdoctoral researcher Brian Porter, published in Nature Scientific Reports, it would seem that readers mistake the complexity of human-written verse for incoherence created by AI.
When in fact all those things are signs that it's *not* written by AI. If you try to make a conspiracy post with AI, it ends up overly wordy, too erudite and yet too vague at the same time: it talks in generalities, not the specific conspiracy talking points of the week. Sure you can reprompt it all the stuff you want it to write, but by that point it's faster to write the post yourself.
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Recently I've been playing around with some of the story AI apps on mobile, they're definitely coming along from the AI Dungeon program I linked ages ago, even before ChatGPT.
I was playing one in a fantasy setting and got bored so basically kidnapped the heroine and took her into the Star Wars universe for an adventure, and she reacted in a believably way to meeting the various races of Star Wars, as if you really brought a fantasy character into the different settings.
My prompt:
This was the AI's reply:Those are the baddies. our mission is to stop them. first we meet the locals. *we speed through the forest, with the dense trees and high speed it's a scary ride and Alisa and Oola both hold on tight. Eventually we come to a stop in a clearing. three little faces appear. they are EWOK warriors
Anyway after that storyline ended we ended up in the Harry Potter universe and I cast Hermione as the villain, which works particularly well. This is a part I wrote:"What in the seven hells are those... creatures?"
*Her eyes widen as she takes in the Ewoks, a mix of fascination and wariness on her face.*
"They look like overgrown, furry children with spears. Are you certain they're warriors?"
*She slides off the speeder bike, her legs a bit unsteady from the wild ride.*
"I suppose after everything else I've seen today, I shouldn't be surprised. But tell me, demon, how exactly are these... fuzzballs going to help us against that monstrosity in the sky?"
*She glances at the Death Star looming above, then back at the Ewoks.*
"Well? Aren't you going to introduce us to our new... allies?"
Below was the AI's response. I was having a lot of fun goading the AI character by making Hermione especially obnoxious:We enter a conjuration class. A young Hermione Granger is there, being very snobby and competitive "hocus pocus kalamazoo" says Hermione in her very posh smug accent, and a bow of flowers turns into frogs. She challenges Alisa to do the same but Alisa's flowers only wilt, which makes Hermione smugly say "it's hocus pocus kalamazoo, not higgledy piggedly ... whatever YOU said Alisa. oh haha i can't believe they'd even put someone like me in the same class as ... whatever YOU are, how -frightfully- absurd. hohoho" she says in her extremely smug upper class English accent. Chewbacca, in his absurd school uniform, also tries, and with merely a grunt of "mneerr" managed to transform his flowers into a small rat. Hermione smiles and says "see Alisa even your surprisingly furry friend here has -some- talent*
So basically after that the AI character became totally obsessed with beating the ever-loving snot out of Hermione and it became pretty fun writing the Hermione parts for her to respond to.*Her cheeks flush with anger and embarrassment.*
"How dare you mock me, you insufferable little know-it-all!"
*She glares at Hermione, her fingers twitching towards her wand.*
"I'll have you know I'm a princess, not some... some commoner to be ridiculed!"
*She takes a deep breath, composing herself.*
"You there, furball," *she nods to Chewbacca,* "well done. At least one of us is showing these pompous wizards what we're capable of."
*She turns back to Hermione, a determined glint in her eye.*
"Mark my words, bushy-haired brat. I'll master this magic, and when I do, you'll regret crossing me."
This doesn't work with every AI engine, but the good ones have detailed and genre-aware responses that let you basically free-form a story like this no matter how it started. The overall coherence is definitely a lot higher than the ones a few years ago.
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Chat GPT texts supposedly include a secret pattern to indicate that they're AI, and this can be decoded by AI text detectors; they haven't actually revealed more details, but something about the frequency of certain specific wordsOriginally Posted by Cipheron
I wonder what that Swiss Jesus AI would say about these wars in Europe and the Middle East.
Whatever tokens its training data set will indicate have the highest probability of being chained together in response, obviously.
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