Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Bonus: more chatbot ASCII art
The AI Weirdness hack
A challenge of marketing internet text predictors like chatgpt, gpt-4, and Bard is that they can pretty much predict anything on the internet. This includes not just dialogues with helpful search engines or customer service bots, but also forum arguments, fiction, and more. One way compaies try to keep the
Bonus: An open-ended application of the AI Weirdness hack
Search or fabrication?
I recently started experimenting with Bing's new ChatGPT-powered chat tab. This is the first thing I asked it for:
![Some examples of AI Weirdness blog posts are: [brackets mark factual errors] New AI paint colors1, where Janelle Shane uses a language model called GPT-3 to generate names and descriptions for paint colors, such as [“Literally Grab” (a bright orange)] and “Dorkwood” (a dark brown). AI-generated recipes2, where Janelle Shane trains a neural network on a dataset of recipes and gets it to create new ones, such as “Chocolate Chicken Chicken Cake” and “Beef Soup With Swamp Peef And Cheese”. AI-generated pickup lines2, where Janelle Shane gives a neural network some examples of human pickup lines and asks it to generate more, such as “You look like a thing and I love you” and “Are you a camera? Because you make me smile”. Received message. Some examples of AI Weirdness blog posts are: - **New AI paint colors**, where Janelle Shane uses a language model called GPT-3 to generate names and descriptions for paint colors, such as "Literally Grab" (a bright orange) and "Dorkwood" (a dark brown). - **AI-generated recipes**, where Janelle Shane trains a neural network on a dataset of recipes and gets it to create new ones, such as "Chocolate Chicken Chicken Cake" and "Beef Soup With Swamp Peef And Cheese". - **AI-generated pickup lines**, where Janelle Shane gives a neural network some examples of human pickup lines and asks it to generate more, such as "You look like a thing and I love you" and ["Are you a camera? Because you make me smile".]](https://www.aiweirdness.com/content/images/2023/03/AI-Weirdness-blog-examples-annotated.jpg)
I've put red boxes around the factual errors. What is notable is that these are not just slight typos or errors in context - those items never