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Re:Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API by ifdefdebug on Sunday July 19, 2020 @06:48PM (#23893085)
Well, not quite QM, but the sentence also implies that the speaker talks to regular horses about other topics or at least admits the existence of topics you can talk to regular horses about - maybe oat quality, I don't know.

It's well-formed nonsense like this that gave me enough hints in all GPT-3 samples so far popping up today.

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Re:Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API by alserio on Sunday July 19, 2020 @07:00PM (#23893149)
I wouldn't be surprised to find that sentence in a book from an author well versed in exquisite British humor. And it made my day just a little bit better.
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Re:Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API by schoen on Sunday July 19, 2020 @07:02PM (#23893164)
Yes, the "regular horse" bit works very well if you think of it as a deliberately humorous or ironic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litotes

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