Re:The computers are getting better at writing
by fapjacks on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @01:57AM
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My biggest problem with people the world round is invariably rooted in this sense of ownership of what other people find meaningful. This kind of top-down dictation of ultimately subjective meaning is what is uncomfortable (because meaning is a form of tacit knowledge and therefore incommunicable) and is the path to inquisitions, woke / oracular authoritarian thought-policing regimes with reeducation camps.
Re:The computers are getting better at writing
by kumarvvr on Monday May 03, 2021 @11:35PM
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And other people reward those findings with money. Good writing is hard. Writing that evokes emotions in others is even harder.
Re:The computers are getting better at writing
by watwut on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:45AM
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It is extraordinary rare to ear money by writing. It may be hard, but people dont reward it with cash.
Re:The computers are getting better at writing
by throwawaygh on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:16PM
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Exactly. Getting people to see patterns is easy. Getting people to fork over money based on those perceptions is much more difficult. Ask any church plant.
The limitations of Markov chains are obvious within hours of starting to use them. GPT-3, less-so.
Re:The computers are getting better at writing
by cageface on Monday May 03, 2021 @10:56PM
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What applications are Markov chains used in now?
Re:The computers are getting better at writing
by Mordisquitos on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @04:56AM
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Sequence analysis in Bioinformatics, for example to align sequences and detect homology and as in HMMER: http://hmmer.org/
People used to say the same thing about Markov chains, and then the hype died down it took 20 years for another hypetrain to pull into the station. The same will happen with GPT-n.
> says very uncomfortable things about the skill of humans in recognizing genuine creative significance.
Indeed. People see pictures in clouds and omnipotent beings in the stars. Humans are uncomfortably good at finding meaning in nothings.