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21 Dec, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Got GPT-3 to generate new Christmas carols.

Here is "Mild is Rudolph". Are you not cheered and comforted?
aiweirdness.com/post/638130829… Mild is Rudolph Mild is Rudolph’s image in the snow He ha
Impressed at the humanlike structure of GPT-3's generated carols

yet disconcerted at what it thinks is a "joyful noise" O Come Rudolph, Come O Come Rudolph, Come Ye Faithful Oh co
GPT-3 knows that what one does is praise Rudolph. It's interesting to see what powers it thinks Rudolph has. Oh look! There’s Santa and Parson Brown Defying the laws o
GPT-3 has recognizably generated a carol, of sorts. The more times I read it, the more unsettling it gets. O Rudolph O Rudolph tune up luckey song Our angelets now th
It seems to be a hallmark of neural net generated carols to be both confused and somehow very unsettlingly correct about how humans celebrate Christmas
OMG just like I remember it from childhood
ABSOLUTELY DYING at the chorus. my cat is now very confused.
One of my favorite things is when very talented humans engage enthusiastically with the output of a confused neural net.
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aiweirdness.com/post/170685749… Team Bear Time Hug Fang Bog Love all hover sweat poo u hack stank love hole love 2000 hogs yea heart me time bear wink bear bear bear be my bear yak o way you are bare mage love oy in a fan cool cud you rear my hag or my bun book
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WHAT HAS OCCURRED CANNOT BE UNDONE

I have trained a neural net on a crowdsourced set of vintage jello-centric recipes

I believe this to possibly be the worst recipe-generating algorithm in existence FAIR AND MOOSE Ingredient...
The training data contained a lot of things.

It contained eel only once. For some reason the AI has decided to use eel a LOT.

It also invents ingredients
EELS IN SILENCE 1/2 lb. but...
Here is another AI eel recipe.

The title is misleading.

Unfortunately that's not a good thing. PINOES WITH VEGETABLE EELS ...
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24 Dec 19
me: i wonder what would happen if i trained the neural net gpt-2 on christmas carols?

me: ...

me: oh NO
aiweirdness.com/post/189845472… Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, with its red belly<br /> The All-gracious King of all the earth,<br /> Had a baby at Christmas time,<br /> On Christmas Day,<br /> A true and holy Deity,<br /> Went down to earth,<br /> With human flesh for sacrifice.<br /> <br /> For sinful men such a Deity doth appear,<br /> And wink and nod in reply,<br /> As he winked and nod in reply,<br /> As he winked and nod in reply<br /> <br /> The wretched world is run by ox and ass<br /> The wretched world is run by ox and
i mean i can see where it got confused

i had a much simpler neural net that wrote things like "he was born in a wonderful christmas tree" but i'd wondered if gpt-2 learned enough from its internet training to disentangle the two types of carols

instead it made it WORSE Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer<br /> Was born in a stable of roses<br /> The sweetest gift of all<br /> As for me<br /> He's the one who gave it Away<br /> It came to pass on Christmas Day<br /> While all through the house<br /> There were tears of joy<br /> And laughter resounded<br /> As the stars all shook in the moon<br /> They saw the sleigh<br /> And all of the house<br /> Spotted the wild goose<br /> That somehow rode along with the other<br /> <br /> The song of the goose<br /> As it flew by<br /> In a manger
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You MUST play AI Dungeon 2, a text adventure game run by a neural net.
@nickwalton00 built it using @OpenAI's huge GPT-2-1.5B model, and it will respond reasonably to just about anything you try. Such as eating the moon.
aiweirdness.com/post/189511103… > Whistle for one of the dragons to come back You whistle
@nickwalton00 @OpenAI Since all the responses are generated on the fly by a neural net, your problem solving options aren't limited to what the game's programmers could imagine.

"Asking nicely" works pleasingly often. As you walk through the ruins, you find a small wooden door
@nickwalton00 @OpenAI And rather than fighting a band of orcs, you can join them. As drummer.
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