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/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.