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Re:Stephen Fry – AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End? by jodrellblank on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:22PM (#41572903) 

    Me: Hi, can you use the concept "bridge" in a 
        never-seen-before sentence, where it still makes
        sense? Please make the sentence very unusual,
        but still coherent. Perhaps a couple of examples?

    ChatGPT: Sure! Here are a couple of unusual but coherent 
        sentences using the concept of "bridge":

        The stars whispered their ancient stories across the
        sky, building a bridge of forgotten time between my
        dreams and the universe’s memories.

        Each thought she left unspoken laid a ghostly bridge 
        between us, invisible but weighty, made of all the
        words that could have been.

        Both sentences play with abstract ideas, pushing the 
        concept of a bridge beyond its typical use but 
        maintaining coherence through metaphor and vivid 
        imagery.
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It's impossible for me to know everything in the training set but there are no Google results for "building a bridge of forgotten time" or "laid a ghostly bridge between us". If you told me those and said you made them up and didn't copy them from somewhere, I'd have to either find the source you copied or believe you.

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Re:Stephen Fry – AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End? by vundercind on Thursday September 19, 2024 @07:46AM (#41590796)
Novelty is not the same as understanding. I think it’s telling that one of the two probably works at least as well with something that’s the opposite of a bridge: gulf, chasm, wall. It just picked a pattern for an analogy and stuck your word in it, mad-libs style. Like, the fact that it’s kinda the opposite of what me would expect makes it a bit poetic in that one’s tempted to pursue what it might mean, but of course the LLM didn’t mean anything (though we still might find meaning).

Its patterns encoded two items and “between” being likely to occur, anyway.

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