[fenomas]

> regurgitate existing works

The other night it regurgitated a humorous four-stanza poem for my D&D group, incorporating (and even rhyming) several of the player character names. Given that the names were made-up and unique, and have zero hits on google, which existing works would you say ChatGPT was regurgitating from?

[bayindirh]

> which existing works would you say ChatGPT was regurgitating from?

Being able to answer this question will earn you millions, of not billions. However, considering neural networks works by banging their training sets together and emitting the resulting sparks, it certainly regurgitated its training set.

[453qtgreq]

Given that you supplied ChatGPT with those names, which still have the very ordinary properties of rhyming with other words and denoting a particular person or being, that's not very interesting.

[fenomas]

Constructing a novel, genuinely humorous poem that incorporates given inputs isn't very interesting because... I had to supply the inputs? Sorry, but I don't follow.

[453qtgreq]

Your original comment made a big deal of a poem-writer being able to incorporate unique words that you gave to it in the first place. No, that's not very interesting.

Writing a "4-line humourous poem" is also trivial. I'm sure my four year old could manage it. Praising a machine learning algorithm for this, that took over 10,000 Exaflops to perform its training routine seriously demeans human ability.

[fenomas]

I didn't claim the poem was interesting, I gave it as an example of something which could not possibly have been regurgitated straight out of the training set, which it clearly was.

Also: it was a 4-stanza poem, three rhyming couplets per stanza. It had a recognizable beginning/middle/end and a reasonably humorous punchline. The rhyme scheme was AABBCC - your four-year old will need to know that when they replicate the feat ;)

[453qtgreq]

You're amazed because a training set, largely based on the contents of the internet since about 2011, is able to find words that rhyme with arbitrary word endings?

4 stanzas. My bad. Still not impressed.

[fenomas]

> You're amazed because [stuff nobody said]?

Comments like this add nothing to the conversation, please consider not posting them.

[sarchertech]

Ask it to expand and write the next verse. Keep going until it gets repetitive. Might give you a glimpse of the training set.