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Re:Introducing Notion AI by joe5150 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:39PM (#33628235)
The local newspaper where I lived until this summer used software called “Lede AI Sports Desk” to automatically generate high school sports articles with headlines like "High School A edges High School B in snug affair 54-52" and "School C drums School D in sound fashion 48-4".

This is clearly not actually using any process that could be called "AI" with a straight face since it's obviously just playing madlibs with different sets of vocabulary based on the scores and margins, but the results were invariably stupid and repetitive headlines and articles.

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Re:Introducing Notion AI by dangerlibrary on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:16AM (#33636612)
To be fair, the special case of the Turing test where participants only discuss recent sporting events seems substantially simpler than the general one. I'm not totally convinced you need GPT-3 level capabilities.
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Re:Introducing Notion AI by joe5150 on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:38PM (#33658389)
that is fair; my only real complaint is that if the software were just maybe 5% more clever, the headlines it generates probably wouldn't look as bad as they do.
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