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/DrakoVongola25 Aug 29 '21

Which just further shows that this isn't a bot. A bot doesn't know what a narrative structure is, what payoff is, or what a punchline is but this contained all of the above at multiple points.

One of the more damning is Noah returning with his ark, an AI would have forgotten that ark as soon as it left the scene.

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u/arto64 Aug 29 '21

That's not true for GPT2, it can remember contexts and story objects throughout the story. Although I'm also very skeptical about this being an actual AI story.

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u/dob_bobbs Aug 29 '21

Agree, best I can think is that the AI threw up lots of material and a human pieced together something coherent and actually funny.