[CyberRabbi]

> I wouldn’t be surprised if we live in such a world in the next decade.

We won't live in that world in the next decade or even in the next 100 years. The technology upon which GPT is built is a dead-end in terms of human-level intelligence.

GPT is an elaborate parrot. As convincing as it is, it's not actually fully capable of doing most if not all tasks that competent humans can do. The largest takeaway for me is that it has shown that intelligence can be mimicked pretty well and perhaps many people are more like parrots than they are "intelligent" creatures.

[umanwizard]

I challenge you to explain how an entity that isn’t capable of something we might reasonably call “creativity” or “intelligence” produced this output. Was it in a corpus somewhere? (Google translate it if you can’t read French). The “///“ were inserted by me as paragraph breaks because otherwise HN eats them.

> Write a poem in a made-up language that looks superficially similar to French

> Voici un poème en un langage inventé

Qui ressemble à s'y méprendre au français

Mais les mots sont différents, les sons uniques

Et leur sens mystérieux et inconnu

///

J'ai marché dans les rues de la ville

J'ai vu les gens qui vivaient leur vie

J'ai entendu les bruits et les rires

Et j'ai senti la chaleur de la vie

///

Mais quand j'ai regardé les mots sur les affiches

Je n'ai pas compris ce qu'ils disaient

Et j'ai eu l'impression d'être perdu

Dans un monde étrange et inconnu

///

Alors j'ai fermé les yeux et j'ai écouté

Le son des mots dans ma tête

Et j'ai commencé à rêver

D'un monde où les mots avaient du sens

///

Un monde où je pourrais parler

Et être compris par tous

Un monde où les mots seraient magiques

Et où les rêves seraient réels.

[fancifalmanima]

I threw that poem into google translate. I think it was actually just French? It didn't actually fulfill your prompt. Is your claim that it's ability to write a poem is a sign of creativity and intelligence? A language model writing a poem is one of the things I'd expect a language model to be able to do. Certainly impressive, but not one of the particularly interesting or surprising things I've seen GPT-3/4 do.

Here is a poem in an invented language

Which looks like the French

But the words are different, the sounds unique

And their mysterious and unknown meaning

I walked the streets of the city

I saw the people living their life

I heard the noises and the laughter

And I felt the warmth of life

But when I looked at the words on the posters

I didn't understand what they were saying

And I felt like I was lost

In a strange and unknown world

So I closed my eyes and listened

The sound of the words in my head

And I started to dream

Of a world where words had meaning

A world where I could talk

And be understood by all

A world where words would be magic

And where dreams would be real.

[smorrebrod]

It is actually just French.

[blargey]

I don’t understand how GPT poetry is supposed to refute the standard refrain that GPT is a statistical parrot that has “learned” what next-word keeps a text sounding poemy. It operates on the same principles as when it composes boilerplate business emails or physics theories. Never mind that you asked for fake-French and got actual-French talking about fake-French.

[lm28469]

lmao this is the best example of chat GPT not working at all, this isn't "a made-up language that looks superficially similar to French", it _is_ French, and it doesn't even rhyme, because chat GPT can't rhyme in French for some reason

source: I'm French