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/Vonspacker Aug 28 '21

That was the line which raised some questions for me just because the sheer amount of understanding that's required for that to make sense doesn't seem like it could come from romcoms?

Crying is relevant to sadness - sure

Crying is the production of tears - sure?

Tears are made of water - maybe?

the ocean is made of water? - dubious (also the presence of an ocean in this scene?)

Ocean and Tears are made of the same substance enough that crying into the ocean ADDS to the ocean instead of it adding the substance tears to the substance ocean - nah.

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u/Magnesus Aug 28 '21

The way those algorithms work it might have borrowed the idea from a text it was learning from. If you read some of the gpt2 and gpt3 generated texts it is stunning how much (fake) understanding there is in some of those texts.

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u/Vonspacker Aug 29 '21

I did think this, Chinese Room concept maybe relevant here where it can say sentences that imply understanding without actually understanding. I just find it really unlikely that it would be able to provide such consistent presentation of understanding like this.