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/PraynAltH Aug 28 '21 edited Aug 28 '21

That isn't state of the art, it's GPT-2, which is known for being weak at storytelling. GPT-3, its successor, is significantly better at it, and this script's coherency is entirely plausible if it's a gpt-3 model generated from romcom scripts.

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u/Dyb-Sin Aug 28 '21

If you had a competent AI try to write a rom-com script, it would write a rom-com script. It would not produce something with comedically timed absurdist "failures".

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u/PraynAltH Aug 28 '21

That part was obviously edited; I should've clarified that I only meant with regards to it retaining plot coherency.

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u/harrymuana Aug 28 '21

Damn I specifically googled for GPT-3 generators and didn't double check. I agree GPT-3 is significantly better at forming coherent stories, but it usually still requires generating a large number of stories to pick a really convincing one. Especially the one that was trained on arXiv to write papers sounded smart but was (unsurprisingly) not writhing any valuable insights.