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Going back to Turing, the argument was for true, human creativity. That's not true. The Turing test is that one can't tell the difference between a human and a machine intelligence by communicating with it. That's it. The claim was that there is no theoretical reason a machine cannot write a compelling sonnet. And that's absolutely not true. I can't write a compelling sonnet. If you are a non-technical person who has been reading popular reporting about ML, you might well have been given the impression that something like GPT2 reflects progress on the sonnet problem. Some very technical people seem to believe this too? Which seems like an issue, because there’s just no evidence for it. I work in the field of NLP and I believe it does reflect progress, and I think there is evidence for it. The gods are they who came to earth
And set the seas ablaze with gold.
There is a breeze upon the sea,
A sea of summer in its folds,
A salt, enchanted breeze that mocks
The scents of life, from far away
Comes slumbrous, sad, and quaint, and quaint.
The mother of the gods, that day,
With mortal feet and sweet voice speaks,
And smiles, and speaks to men: "My Sweet,
I shall not weary of thy pain."
GPT2 small generated poetry. For the youth, who, long ago,
Came up the long and winding way
Beneath my father's roof, in sorrow—
Sorrow that I would not bless
With his very tears. Oh,
My son the sorrowing,
Sorrow's child. God keep thy head,
Where it is dim with age,
Gentle in her death!
GPT2 1.5B large generated poetry.Both samples from https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2 |