[mintplant]

It writes uncomfortably coherent and witty fatalist My Little Pony fanfiction:

> “I’m Princess Celestia, of Equestria.” the alicorn said, “It’s nice to meet you. And I’m very sorry for your untimely demise.”

> “Heh. You’re telling me.” the Professor laughed, shaking his head. “I’m dead. I’m… dead. Do you know what that means?”

> “I have an inkling.” Princess Celestia said, wincing.

> “It means I don’t have to worry about even numbers anymore.” he said, nodding. “I don’t have to worry about probabilities anymore! I don’t have to worry about the upcoming war anymore! I don’t have to worry about anypony anymore!” he spread his hooves out at his sides, “I don’t have to do anything anymore! It’s beautiful!”

> “Yes, yes, I’m sure it is.” Princess Celestia said, nodding along.

> “Nothing matters now that I’m dead!” he cheered, “It’s great! I’m free! This is what it feels like to be liberated!”

> “I can see that.” she said.

> “I’m free from death!” he continued, “I’m free from taxes! I’m free from dictatorships! I’m free from flirting!” he laughed, “I’m free from everything! Isn’t it great?”

> “Sure, I guess.” Princess Celestia shrugged.

> “What do you think about all of this, Princess?” he asked.

> “About what?” she replied.

> “Well, I just thought you might have something to say about it all.” he told her.

> “What would you like me to say?” she responded.

> “Do you think death is awesome?” he questioned.

> “Well… no.” she shook her head, “But I think the passage to it is.”

> “Oh.” he said, “I see what you mean.”

[wongarsu]

I'm not sure if I'm more impressed by the solid understanding of the concept of death, the coherent dialog with people interacting with each other, or the use of "anypony" instead of anyone.

[dTal]

What the hell? How much of a world model does it have, that it can do things like write coherently about death as liberation, and come up with examples of things a living thing might be relieved at not having to bother with anymore? How the hell did a computer write this? Are we sure it's not been overtrained and this is actually a verbatim story from somewhere?

[MauranKilom]

Surely this kind of topic came up in its corpus. I would expect it to have sufficient generalization to "understand" and talk about the topic itself. If all instances of this topic in its training data were replaced with the emotions clowns undergo when throwing ripe tomatoes, it would've written about that.

[gwern]

On IRC, we loved that sample when I generated it - it's not just a hilariously coherent story which makes you want to know more (what is Starswirl up to? what were Professor Endagerment & Doctor Caballeron fighting over?), some of the lines are both alien & deeply funny: apparently in the afterlife, all numbers are odd, including the number '2'.

[runawaybottle]

Now how do we get aspiring actors to take GPT3 seriously and act out a possible screenplay?

Hopefully one day it will generate startup business plans, and we’ll get people to take it seriously, we may not know the difference.

[rorykoehler]

We animate them from nothing

[CamperBob2]

Wow. What prompt did you give it to obtain this?

[gwern]

See https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#my-little-pony It was a loosely FiO-themed prompt.