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by Gormisdomai 196 days ago
The example sentences generated “only from neural data” at the top of this article seem surprisingly accurate to me, like, not exact matches but much better than what I would expect even from 10k hours:

“the room seemed colder” -> “ there was a breeze even a gentle gust”

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Tangential to your point, if you collect 10,000 hours of brain scanning in exactly one damp basement, I wonder if perhaps the model would become very, very specialized for all of the flavors of "this room seems colder."
For the record, it was two basements -- we moved office in the middle -- and a bigger issue was actually overheating. But your point is basically right! The model is a lot better at certain kinds of ideas than others. Particularly concerning was the fact that the first cluster I noticed getting good was all the different variations of 'the headset is uncomfortable/heavy' etc. But this makes sense -- what participants talk about has a lot to do with what kinds of ideas the model can pick up, and this was more or less what we expected
Exactly. And honestly both this example and the one about the woman seemed to be what I would actually think/feel vs what I say.

Very interesting!

Yeah, agreed