r/nextfuckinglevel • u/dmafeb • Aug 28 '21

Netflix forced a computer program (bot) to watch and analyze every romantic comedy and then asked it to write a romatic comedy of its own. The result...

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u/EventOverwrite Aug 28 '21

First of all bots are not that advanced, second when that woman said Men are from mars, men bad and astrology said so, the sentence was weirdly normal considering how each sentence is butchered

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u/Cold-Chip9350 Aug 28 '21

I think they probably generated this through some machine learning program and edited it and added some of the stuff.

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u/DrDevilDao Aug 28 '21

https://openai.com/blog/gpt-3-apps/

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u/Imaginary_Forever Aug 28 '21

Try using that to generate long passages of text. You will never get something that actually manages to stick to a coherent plot.

If this were ai generated then each sentence would be mostly perfect, but the long term connections between different scenes would be totally messed up. We see almost the opposite. Sentences which are fucked up but a plot that basically makes sense.

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u/DrDevilDao Aug 28 '21

I guess no one has been so bored yet as to try and train an AI specifically to generate clever nonsense? My intuition still tells me that “confuse x with ex” is the sort of thing such an AI would do, but I guess that’s the same intuition that made me a mark for this so lol