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by TaylorAlexander 1842 days ago
Here’s my test prompt: “Today at a rally in Virginia, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders gave his remarks in front of a large crowd. Here is what he said.”

Below is the output, which aside from talking about New York when my prompt says Virginia is otherwise pretty surprisingly believable:

Bernie Sanders: Well good afternoon, my friends. I want to thank you very much for being here.

You know, I am often asked, you know, can we do well in New York State? I say we can do much better than I think Governor Cuomo expects. The people of New York State have given me a lot of encouragement. And I believe that the people of the State of New York have given this campaign a lot of strength. We’re in a much stronger position to win the primary because of that strength.

When I started campaigning in New York a few weeks ago, there were many people who said, “Okay, you know, we need to win in Nevada, we need to win in New Hampshire, we need to win in South Carolina, we need to win in California.” And we don’t need to do that. We are doing well. We are doing well. I think the people of New York have been very supportive. I think the people of the State of New York have been supportive. We are winning. And we are winning. We are well on our way to winning in California. That means we are winning in the nation.

You know, before I came

(end of model output)

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I was curious if it knew anything about me (slim chances) and it does not seem to. It generated a thorough bio that has nothing to do with me. However it’s pretty funny. The prompt is in quotes and the output follows:

“Taylor Alexander is a robotics engineer and “

one of the founders of Transcend, a research lab. Alexander specializes in both manufacturing and consumer applications of robotics. He is also a former roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied robotics and human-computer interaction. In that capacity, he worked on a research program funded by DARPA to design a mobile manipulator for soldiers.

The team tested the robotic arm in a variety of physical simulations for landing, handling, and carrying heavy loads like a military bomb. They tested the design on both operating systems—Linux and Windows.

“We built this to test the machine on the two dominant operating systems that we thought might be useful in the future,” says Alexander. “But it actually worked on everything. We saw the same kind of accuracy in the process on all of the different operating systems.”

The team decided to make the arm multi-platform after seeing the arm working so well on Linux and Windows. They were very impressed with the portability. The arm was light enough to pick up a relatively heavy base and, with just a slight rotation, it could hold the base up in the air. The weight didn’t matter to the arm at all.

Since the arm works on Linux, the

It did well. It did well. I think it did well. Because it did well, it will do well.