Top all-time · #3059
Arram Sabeti
Personal blog · arr.amaiwriting
Arram Sabeti's personal blog at arr.am covers ai and writing. Since 2011, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Arram Sabeti's GPT-3 experiments: AI-written op-eds, comedy writing, uncertainty prompts and a Dr. Seuss-style piece. Commenters cite them as examples of what GPT-3 can do.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Arram Sabeti — I started a company that's done half a billion dollars in sales. Now I make strange, beautiful things, write, and meditate.
Most-linked posts?
- Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-07-29
- Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-08-04
- GPT-3: An AI that’s eerily good at writing almost anything4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-07-09
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-24
- /2020/07/22/why-gpt-3-is-good-for-comedy-or-reddit-eats-larry-page-alive/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-30
- /2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-22
What Hacker News says?
This is really interesting because I was just looking at gibberish detection using GPT models. Seems like mitigating AI with AI doesn't sound like it's all that secure since you can probably mess with the gibberish detection similarly - Or maybe the 'secret language' as they're calling it here passes GPT gibberish detection? [1] [1] https://arr.am/2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts/
Comment linking /2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts/
on “DALL-E 2 has a secret language”Submitted Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense as a story · 322 points
HN discussionRelated article: Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense https://arr.am/2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts/
Comment linking /2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts/
on “OpenAI Codex”Submitted Noticing You're Confused as a story · 206 points
HN discussionDon't want to be too critical, interesting experiment, but I found the story and pictures rather boring. I think it shows that it is still a tool, and can be used creatively, or not, depending on the creative skill of the artist. Contrast this with the now classic piece: https://arr.am/2020/07/31/human-intelligence-an-ai-op-ed/
Comment linking /2020/07/31/human-intelligence-an-ai-op-ed/
on “I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it”Submitted Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed as a story · 121 points
HN discussionHm, maybe he really is intelligent, but the facts and logic are missing... FWIW, I do think that GPT3 is smarter than humans. But one thing I learned from observing it that being smarter does not necessarily mean being better with logic and facts. It's great as a storytelling system, and because it is so much smarter, you never know whether it is just BSing you in storytelling mode or it is actually deadly serious.…
Comment linking /2020/07/31/human-intelligence-an-ai-op-ed/
on “I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42””Submitted GPT-3: An AI that’s eerily good at writing almost anything as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is why it’s fair to call some prompt designs bad. With a bad prompt you can’t really judge anything from the response. But better prompt design can uncover interesting behaviors. GPT-3 will generally not reject a prompt as nonsense or unreasonable, and will instead do a straight-faced continuation, probably because it has been trained on plenty of jokes, satires, dream sequences, etc. But if you specifically gi…
Comment linking /2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts
on “GPT-3 has no idea what it’s talking about”Submitted GPT-3: An AI that’s eerily good at writing almost anything as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI sensed this too. So I looked at the author's profile. Now I'm even more confused: From https://arr.am : Stuff That’s Happened to Me I took a photo that may now be one of the most reproduced images in history. I once came up with an idea with a friend that accidentally became a national TV ad featuring Nicki Minaj, Serena Williams, Usher, Kylie and Kendall Jenner. I once crashed a fashion show, pretended to be a mo…
Comment linking /
on “Noticing You're Confused”Submitted AI Tim Ferriss Interviews AI Marcus Aurelius as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhat is up with you taking one of the most reproduced images in history [1], but not even linking or showing it? [1] https://arr.am >I took a photo that may now be one of the most reproduced images in history.
Comment linking /
on “Noticing You're Confused”Submitted The Generative Age as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGwern has a huge rundown: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3 And I like what Arram has been producing: https://arr.am/2020/07/14/elon-musk-by-dr-seuss-gpt-3/
Comment linking /2020/07/14/elon-musk-by-dr-seuss-gpt-3/
on “Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats”Submitted Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think there is a confidence score actually! Most blogs about it don't show them but this one went into it: https://arr.am/2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts/ It's really cool how the uncertainty prompts alter the confidence associated with the next words. I guess I'm not disagreeing with you in the abstract that a theoretically strong enough AI could identify bad papers, especially if it had some help for 'real'…
Comment linking /2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts/
on “What's wrong with social science and how to fix it”Submitted GPT-3: An AI that’s eerily good at writing almost anything as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFrom one of those links it seems it's surprisingly decent at comedy (for a machine): https://arr.am/2020/07/22/why-gpt-3-is-good-for-comedy-or-re...
Comment linking /2020/07/22/why-gpt-3-is-good-for-comedy-or-reddit-eats-larry-page-alive/
on “GPT-3 Examples”Submitted GPT-3: An AI that’s eerily good at writing almost anything as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFrom the same site, this brilliant attempt at comedy writing - with some passages better than many human comedy writers: https://arr.am/2020/07/22/why-gpt-3-is-good-for-comedy-or-re...
Comment linking /2020/07/22/why-gpt-3-is-good-for-comedy-or-reddit-eats-larry-page-alive/
on “Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed”Submitted Sunyata - We are just information as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis criticism was addressed by Nick Cammarata of OpenAI, who said that: > “it’s all about the prelude before the conversation. You need to tell it what the AI is and is not capable [of]. It’s not trying to be right, it’s trying to complete what it thinks the AI would do :)” He did some "prompt engineering" and came up with: > ‘This is a conversation between a human and a brilliant AI. If a question is “normal” the…
Comment linking /2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts/
on “Why do we all fall for AI-generated language?”Being the author of The Program, a fiction podcast described by fans as "a love child of Black Mirror and NPR", I've been following news around GPT-3 very closely. So I decided to make an episode depicting a fictionalized origin story of GPT-3. The twist is that I incorporated actual text generated by GPT-3 to tell the narrative (even the episode title has been generated by it!) To this end, I used four excellent ar…
Comment linking /2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts
on “Show HN: My fiction podcast about GPT-3 incorporating HN discussions”Hmm. Holding one category steady and checking the others invariably reveals a combination that hasn't been generated (like in dozens of tries I didn't get one pregenerated result), so you definitely need to figure out how to fund more prompt results. One thing you could try is to treat this as a straightforward content farm and sell ads or sponsorship on the site. Using Google AdSense won't work since they prohibit…
Comment linking /2020/07/25/gpt-3-uncertainty-prompts/
on “Show HN: Possible – GPT-3 Business Idea Generator and Explorer”One of my favorite AI generated essays argues that intelligence is “doing whatever humans do.” https://arr.am/2020/07/31/human-intelligence-an-ai-op-ed/
Comment linking /2020/07/31/human-intelligence-an-ai-op-ed/
on “Early Artificial Intelligence Projects: A Student Perspective (2006)”
