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This is my new bio. It replaces my old one, which I was told was bad. Meme alt: @KajPictures

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    Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

    I keep seeing all kinds of crazy reports about people's experiences with GPT-3, so I figured that I'd collect a thread of them.

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      2. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        First, @gwern 's crazy collection of all kinds of prompts, with GPT-3 generating poetry, summarizing stories, rewriting things in different styles, and much much more. http://gwern.net/GPT-3 

        3 replies 13 retweets 172 likes
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      3. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Sharif Shameem

        Automatic code generation from natural language descriptions. "Give me a page with a table showing the GDP of different nations, and a red button."https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1282676454690451457 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        2:00
        Sharif Shameem @sharifshameem
        This is mind blowing. With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want, and it generates the JSX code for you. W H A T pic.twitter.com/w8JkrZO4lk
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      4. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Joscha Bach

        Taking a brief technical tweet about GPT-3 and expanding it to an essay which the author of the original tweet mostly endorses.https://twitter.com/Plinz/status/1283211048145711104 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Joscha Bach @Plinz
        I am completely floored. Someone run a thought of mine through GPT-3 to expand it into an explanation of what I had in mind, and it's like 95% meaningful and 90% correct. I don't think that I have seen a human explanation of my more complicated tweets approaching this accuracy :) https://twitter.com/jessems/status/1283030473816576002 …
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      5. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Nick Cammarata

        Acting as a more intense therapist than ELIZA ever was.https://twitter.com/nicklovescode/status/1283300424418619393 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Nick Cammarata @nickcammarata
        It *started off* with this before diving 10 levels deeper pic.twitter.com/GsBooIvmFa
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      6. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        On the side of "it does still have weaknesses too", figuring out how to trick it at the Turing Test.http://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.html …

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      7. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Kaj Sotala

        Also, using the architecture behind it to generate images.https://twitter.com/xuenay/status/1273898995706998790 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Kaj Sotala @xuenay
        OpenAI releases Image-GPT, a version of the same AI that you've probably seen generating writing. Only this time the same architecture (!!!) is trained on images instead. Given a partial image, it can generate multiple different ways of completing it. https://openai.com/blog/image-gpt/  pic.twitter.com/9DGBZDSTne
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      8. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        Redditor shares an "AI Dungeon" game played with the new GPT-3 -based "dragon model", involving a cohesive story generated in response to their actions, with only a little manual editing.https://www.reddit.com/r/AIDungeon/comments/hpkqij/using_the_dragon_module_i_just_generated_what_is/ …

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      9. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        The official announcement of the Dragon Model and examples. "The game invents a complex magic system and underlying theory behind why it works and describes the whole system as I read the book."https://medium.com/@aidungeon/ai-dungeon-dragon-model-upgrade-7e8ea579abfe …

        3 replies 13 retweets 104 likes
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      10. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Harley Turan

        Another example of automatically generated code, this time giving GPT-3 a bit of React code defining a component called "ThreeButtonComponent" or "HeaderComponent", and letting it write the rest.https://twitter.com/hturan/status/1282261783147958272 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        1:22
        Harley Turan @hturan
        Here's GPT-3 generating React components based on a _variable name_ alone, using the @OpenAI API. pic.twitter.com/YHP8gVqMLD
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      11. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Qasim Munye

        From a brief description, GPT-3 correctly generates an explanation indicating that it's a case of asthma, mentions a drug that's used to treat asthma, the type of receptor the drug works on, and which multiple-choice quiz question this indicates.https://twitter.com/QasimMunye/status/1278750809094750211 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Qasim Munye @QasimMunye
        So @OpenAI have given me early access to a tool which allows developers to use what is essentially the most powerful text generator ever. I thought I’d test it by asking a medical question. The bold text is the text generated by the AI. Incredible... (1/2) pic.twitter.com/4bGfpI09CL
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      12. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Kevin Lacker

        GPT-3 tries to get a software job.https://twitter.com/lacker/status/1279136788326432771 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Kevin Lacker @lacker
        GPT-3 can't quite pass a coding phone screen, but it's getting closer. pic.twitter.com/oDbDC0T0sa
        3 replies 13 retweets 124 likes
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      13. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Harland Duman

        Translating natural language descriptions into shell commands, and vice versa.https://twitter.com/harlandduman/status/1282132804034150400 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Harland Duman @harlandduman
        Translating natural language descriptions into shell commands. I was pretty impressed with this one pic.twitter.com/gi4Knf2Rgm
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      14. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Andrew Mayne

        Given a prompt with a few lines of dialogue, GPT-3 continues the story, incorporating details such as having a character make 1800s references after it was briefly mentioned that she's a nineteenth-century noblewoman.https://twitter.com/AndrewMayne/status/1271112770293862402 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Andrew MayneVerified account @AndrewMayne
        If you can't tell, I'm very excited about @OpenAI's API. I've been playing with it for the last few months and it feels like I got a glimpse inside of a friendly alien spaceship. Their beta is here: https://beta.openai.com  Read about my experience: https://andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/the-aichannels-project/ …
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      15. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 15 Jul 2020

        . @bioothod noted that not *all* of GPT-3's answers are that great. Fair. IMO, being able to produce good answers even *with* human selection is amazing by itself, and often it requires relatively little, but yeah it's not a general intelligence yet.https://aiweirdness.com/post/621186154843324416/all-your-questions-answered …

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      16. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 16 Jul 2020

        So far I had only been sharing other people's experiences, which did occasionally make me wonder whether they're all real. Now I tried out GPT-3 myself, to generate some space opera. And whoa. Yeah I believe that they're real now.https://kajsotala.fi/2020/07/gpt-3-space-opera/ …

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      17. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 16 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Francis Jervis

        https://twitter.com/f_j_j_/status/1283349995144359937 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Francis Jervis @f_j_j_
        GPT-3 performance on "write this like an attorney" is insane. It even includes relevant statutes if you mention a jurisdiction. This will put a lot of lawyers out of work. Only the first 2 are prompts... pic.twitter.com/u7eOyuSd9b
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      18. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 17 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Nick Cammarata

        An earlier link pointed out that GPT-3 doesn't realize that nonsense questions are nonsense questions. But you can also just tell GPT-3 to treat nonsense as such.https://twitter.com/nicklovescode/status/1284050958977130497 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Nick Cammarata @nickcammarata
        Replying to @eigenrobot
        it's all about the prelude before the conversation. You need to tell it what the AI is and is not capable. It's not trying to be right, it's trying to complete what it thinks the AI would do :) pic.twitter.com/gpqvoWXmiV
        2 replies 5 retweets 48 likes
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      19. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 17 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Nick Cammarata

        Using GPT-3 to help you do gratitude journaling.https://twitter.com/nicklovescode/status/1283740861260369920 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Nick Cammarata @nickcammarata
        For a few nights before going to sleep it’s been helping me gratitude journal and it’s just been the coziest thing pic.twitter.com/B6QIC4zRUO
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      20. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 18 Jul 2020

        Source is an anonymous image board poster so could be fake, but: if you give an AI Dungeon character fake wolf ears and then ask her to explain formal logic to you, she may use the ears in her example. (source: https://yuki.la/vg/299570235  )pic.twitter.com/QZKHjjNU6F

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      21. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 18 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted KaryoKleptid

        Even after seeing all the other results, I honestly have difficulties believing that this one is real.https://twitter.com/kleptid/status/1284098635689611264 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        KaryoKleptid @kleptid
        Replying to @kleptid @QuantumSeany and 2 others
        Teaching GPT-3 to do a brute force 'for loop' checking answers also seems to work pic.twitter.com/18T7zAWbto
        6 replies 4 retweets 25 likes
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      22. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 20 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Anders Sandberg

        Starting to see lots of "GPT-3 is overhyped and not that smart" articles now. Sure it's not actually intelligent, but the fact that a non-intelligent thing can do so many things is still significant and it will have lots of applications.https://twitter.com/anderssandberg/status/1285104499531698176 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Anders Sandberg @anderssandberg
        For me, the big story about #gpt3 is not that it is smart - it is dumb as a pile of rocks - but that piles of rocks can do many things we thought you needed to be smart for. Fake intelligence may be dominant over real intelligence in many domains.
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      23. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 20 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted delian  🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

        Writer gives GPT-3 the beginning of an "How to recruit board members to your startup?" essay, thinks the second half is good enough to add into the essay.https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1283927560435326976 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        delian  🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 @zebulgar
        Omfg, ok so I fed GPT3 the first half of my "How to run an Effective Board Meeting" (first screenshot) AND IT FUCKIN WROTE UP A 3-STEP PROCESS ON HOW TO RECRUIT BOARD MEMBERS THAT I SHOULD HONESTLY NOW PUT INTO MY DAMN ESSAY (second/third screenshot) IM LOSING MY MIND pic.twitter.com/BE3GUEVlfi
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      24. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 20 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Jordan Singer

        Automatically creating designs from a verbal description.https://twitter.com/jsngr/status/1284511080715362304 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        1:18
        Jordan Singer @jsngr
        This changes everything. 🤯 With GPT-3, I built a Figma plugin to design for you. I call it "Designer" pic.twitter.com/OzW1sKNLEC
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      25. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 20 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Paras Chopra

        Richard "GPT-3" Dawkins summarizes the central idea of his book, "The Selfish Gene". (Also GPT-generated conversations with other famous people in that thread.)https://twitter.com/paraschopra/status/1284423233047900161 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Paras Chopra @paraschopra
        1/ Asked @RichardDawkins on GPT3 to explain the central idea of his book "The Selfish Gene". Here's what it said. (Everything after Dear Paras is GPT3). pic.twitter.com/hAfeeYxPAP
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      26. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 20 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Paras Chopra

        GPT-3 as a general question-answering system. (If I were to use that, I'd make sure to check those sources it gives, but of course even an answer that you have to verify from the source is better than nothing.)https://twitter.com/paraschopra/status/1284801028676653060 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        0:34
        Paras Chopra @paraschopra
        I made a fully functioning search engine on top of GPT3. For any arbitrary query, it returns the exact answer AND the corresponding URL. Look at the entire video. It's MIND BLOWINGLY good. cc: @gdb @npew @gwern pic.twitter.com/9ismj62w6l
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      27. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 20 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Paul Katsen

        Integrating it to Google Sheets: fill in surrounding cells, GPT-3 figures out how to autocomplete the contents of the next one.https://twitter.com/pavtalk/status/1285410751092416513 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        1:15
        Paul Katsen @pavtalk
        =GPT3()... the spreadsheet function to rule them all. Impressed with how well it pattern matches from a few examples. The same function looked up state populations, peoples' twitter usernames and employers, and did some math. pic.twitter.com/W8FgVAov2f
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      28. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 21 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Lisha.eth 🌹

        Humans of GPT-3.https://twitter.com/lishali88/status/1285014740029276162 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Lisha.eth 🌹 @lishali88
        Humans of AI: Virtual beings dreamed up by @Rosebud_AI and their stories by GPT3. Dm's are open if you want to contribute to this collection of fictional humans with ever familiar stories as a collaborative art project. https://www.instagram.com/generative.photos/ … Thread 0/9. pic.twitter.com/sZOmIEBwBw
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      29. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 21 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Yash Dani

        https://twitter.com/itsyashdani/status/1285695850300219392 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        0:36
        Yash Dani @itsyashdani
        Built a GPT-3 bot that lets people with no accounting knowledge generate financial statements 📈 👀 Here it is creating balance sheets by turning everyday language into Python code: pic.twitter.com/pFnhmi5guM
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      30. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 25 Jul 2020

        A 200-page fantasy novel co-written with GPT-3. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1asIdoEhZD2oLasLloo3DV96_W0bfr-RM0vDYqlxlMI4/edit# …

        1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
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      31. Kaj Sotala‏ @xuenay 26 Jul 2020

        Kaj Sotala Retweeted Raphaël Millière

        https://twitter.com/raphamilliere/status/1287047986233708546 …

        Kaj Sotala added,

        Raphaël Millière @raphaelmilliere
        Following @keithfrankish's tongue-in-cheek suggestion, I prompted GPT-3 to write a short philosophy paper. The result puts its strengths & weaknesses on display. The mimicry of argumentation is uncanny, if very flawed, and often unintentionally funny. pic.twitter.com/td4skj2Rr6
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