This news article about the full public release of OpenAI's 'dangerous' GPT-2 model was part written by GPT-2 OpenAI’s massive text-generating language model, which was whispered to be too dangerous to release, has finally been published in full after the research lab concluded it has “seen no strong evidence of misuse so far.” The model, known as GPT-2, was announced back in February. At the time, only a partial version of the …
"It was a dark and stormy night" was my input, and the output was not at all what I was expecting...
...and the snow-drifts were high; but the boy had his coat and his shoes, and with one hand he was holding on to a tree for support, and in the other he was picking flowers, or peeping out of holes in the snow.
"I have found a bird; I have found a bird!"
And at that he let go the other hand, and the tree was suddenly moved and fell into the snow.
"It is a bird," he said, "and there are two of them; they are dancing; they have two hearts, but one is beating; they have two tails, but one is flapping; they are on their way to a place where they will live on water, but only for a day or two; they are going to a place where they will live on sand, but only for a day or two. One is green, and the other is yellow."
"Is it possible that they are a bird?" asked his mother; "that they are not a man, and that you...
You could cull the odd line that clearly doesn't fit and churn out quite reasonable stuff. I assume that you can feed the edited output back in again to refine the process? I must call my agent at once!
Paris, because any no talent loser can become famous
"I wish that I knew what I know now when I was younger. I was going to be a reporter," says Saldana, who has been writing about crime and corruption since the 1980s. He tells me how he started out on the streets of New York, where he spent his teenage years with his friends stealing cars and drugs, working for newspapers in exchange for food and shelter.
In 1981, Saldana was hired to write for the New York Post, but he never really felt at home there. He went home to L.A. "I was working for a newspaper but I was not part of the newsroom. I was a reporter in exile," he says. He quit and made his way to New Orleans. He lived in a small apartment with a woman who was the only one to accept him. "My apartment was so bare. There was a lot of food, and a lot of stuff that I had to carry," he says. "I did not have a TV, or a computer. So I was completely dependent on the woman who let me stay in her apartment. That was a very good thing.
... and it makes a career in journalism sound so appealing, too!
It appears the AI likes pop music, turned black sabbath into justin timberlake lyrics...
What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn 'round quick and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one
Oh, no no, don't give up!
You're mine and I'm yours
Let's get together again!
I can't stop this feeling
I've been feeling this way since the day I saw you
When I first met you
It was love at first sight
That's a fact, right?
We started out dating for a month
Then for two weeks, I'd never saw you before
You looked so beautiful
You have no idea how much I liked you
That's what makes me think about you
I'm so happy that I just want you to say "Hi"
I want to make out with you
I love the way you look in your red sweater
But I think you should get some new clothes.
You're too skinny for your size.
Oh my god, my stomach hurts.
How can I forget how you looked at me when we were in the car?
Appears that it does passable slayer lyrics...
Raining blood
From a lacerated sky
Bleeding its horror
Creating my structure now I shall reign in blood
All that's gone will be re-created, all that's gone will be re-created,
Blood of the earth, blood of the air, blood of the soul
A curse upon the earth, a curse upon the ground,
A curse upon the skies, a curse upon the earth
A curse upon the earth, a curse upon the ground,
A curse upon the skies, a curse upon the earth
A curse upon the earth, a curse upon the ground,
A curse upon the skies, a curse upon the earth
And can make judas preist depressing
There I was completely wasted, out of work and down
All inside it's so frustrating as I drift from town to town
Feel as though nobody cares if I live or die
So I might as well begin to put some action in my life
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Break the law, breaking the law
Just like you want it, I don't need it
Well that's just it, it's the truth
So much pressure on you all the time
When you can't sleep at night I just want to say it's alright
Just like I said, I love you
And when you come home to me, just tell me
How I'm such a waste of space
When it's hard to find a job and the phone doesn't work
And then you just tell me that it's alright
Well I'm just thinking of you all the time
And then it starts to rain so I have to leave
It's obviously had second thoughts since replying to you:
It was a dark and stormy night
And I was running around with my guitar
The rain and the wind and the rain and the wind
My fingers were stained with blood and my brain was fried
I was so down and out and I was so high
I was playing guitar to myself
I was dancing naked all alone
And that's when they found me
They saw me singing 'Hallelujah'
And they took me to the police station
And put me in a cell with the other criminals
They beat me all the time with cables
They threw me into the trash like an animal
And my heart was pounding all the time
They put me in a hospital and I stayed there for a long time
They took me to a psychiatrist and I was given medication
They gave me antidepressants for my troubles
But it didn't work
And then they took me to the hospital for my mental illness
And the psychiatrist told me to stop drinking
They sent me on a drug that gave
I tried with "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times".
Results:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I was with the best friends in the world, I was with the most amazing people, and the worst was that I was doing it, and that my wife and the kids were there. The worst was that my wife and the kids were there. The best was that the best of times were here, and the worst of times were here. The worst of times were here, and the best of times were here. The best of times are here, and the worst of times are here.
The best of times are here, and the worst of times are here. The best of times are here, and the worst of times are here.
The best of times are here, and the worst of times are here. The best of times are here, and the worst of times are here.
"I had one of the most amazing relationships with anyone. I had a great wife that was so much more than a mother. I had a great son, and a daughter, and a sister. They were my world. We were a family, my wife"
Still laughing! 8^)
If these tools can churn out almost meaningful text given some input, then all it takes to poison social media is for it to be able to produce seemingly consistent, but different text on a subject, and shotgun it across the different social media platforms.
As soon as a casual check from multiple sources appears to confirm a story, others will comment, referencing the other platforms and reinforcing the misinformatiom, it becomes "true" as far as the Internet and many, many of the users are concerned.
Just having one of these things contributing to Twitter threads et. al. on a regular basis to 'confirm' false facts is very dangerous.
I'm interested in seeing what amanfrommars1 says on this.
Me: Hardly anyone knows any more how to mend their shoes.
The machine continues:
There are a number of different types of shoe repair in China, but the basic techniques are fairly simple: The shoes need to be cleaned and dried. There are a number of different materials and tools used to clean and dry, and the methods can vary widely. It seems that most shoe repair shops in Beijing have some kind of machine or machine, but others may not. Some repair shops use brushes and cloth, others use a variety of tools and chemicals. If you want a more detailed treatment, you can consult a local expert.
It's important to note that this kind of repair is more advanced than what you'd normally see on the streets of Beijing, and is often the only way to get shoes cleaned and dried. Many repair shops will offer repairs, but do so with their own special set of instructions and tools, so take a look at the shop in question first before you sign up for repairs.
There are several methods for fixing a shoe, all of which work to remove the shoe's last, which is the rubber part of the shoe. The first
Me again: It left the last sentence incomplete, other examples seem to be often cut similarly. I wonder why it started going on about shoe repair shops in Beijing? Probably it came directly from some text used to train it. So you get plausible text if the subject of your "seed" is something with good examples in the training material else it degenerates to nonsense pretty quickly. A good simulation of a lazy student that copy-pastes his essays from source texts...
The machine comments on my last sentence: My friend's student had one of the highest GPA and MCAT scores. When I asked why she didn't have a job after earning her degree, she responded that she didn't need one because she had a job with a large consulting firm. When I asked her if she could have a full-time job as a junior associate in a company where the clients were small, she said no.
"Do you think you could manage a department or start a consulting practice if you wanted?" I asked.
"No, I'm happy where I am. I get to be with people I love. I get to go to happy hours. I get to go to work for clients who care about me. I get to work with a great team of people."
I have a friend who is a college graduate with three degrees, two of which she received through college admissions. Her family was very wealthy, but they wanted her to have a college education. Her first major was a business degree with a major in marketing. She wanted a career in marketing.
President Trump licked his lips and bit the head off the mewling baby with relish. "You can't get rid of me now America!" he said as he pressed the big, red button.
"I'm not a baby! I'm not a baby!" screamed the little girl as she ran out of the room.
The president laughed out loud as he held the little girl, screaming, for all the world to see. "You can't get rid of me now!" he screamed.
"We're going to make America great again!"
(The first two sentences were mine, I'm slightly impressed with the first few AI sentences but it quickly descends into total nonsense.)
I gave it the first verse of Jabberwocky and ran it a few times. The first few weren't too bad, then it seemed to trip over itself a bit (hardly surprising) and start writing an essay about the poem instead (more surprising).
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
The gyre and gimble in the wabe,
(1) The original poem, and (2) a later version. (3) The "Mamey" that was originally part of the poem, with additional words added by the author. The original poem:
Woe unto thee! wherefore dost thou gape,
As with one mouth and a single look
The mome rath doeth borogoves?
The "Mamey" that was added in the later version:
Wherefore dost thou gape, as with one mouth and a single look
The mome rath doeth borogoves?
The original poem has the line "the mome raths outgrabe" and the later
The reason deepfakes and such are a problem is that we have a habit of recognising people by how they look and sound. If you can fake their face and/or voice and show video and audio of them doing or saying something, people will tend to believe it actually happened. Text just doesn't have the same problem. Or more accurately, it's always had the same problem so using a computer to do simply isn't relevant. The difference is that text is inherently anonymous. As Albert Einstein once said, you can write anything you like and claim some famous person said it. It doesn't matter if a computer can churn out some barely coherent nonsense, because people have already been doing that for thousands of years. That's precisely why we already have issues with fake news and the like. Throw an AI to spout randomly generated crap onto Twitter and no-one is going to notice the difference.
On a different note, I'm a little confused how the researchers concluded that there was no risk from releasing the model because people hadn't been using the model they hadn't released maliciously.
For kicks, here's what it made of the second verse of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat:
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-Tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
He asked his wife how she liked it. "My nose has a ring." said she, "You elegant bird!" So they made love and were wedded. Their first child was called Peep-boop. Their second child was called Pussy. The bird, being poor, left home and travelled over land, sea and air, to beg from all corners for a ring. When he found one, he gave it to the Pig.
And this, I kid you not, is what it came up with for Father Jack's salutation of "Feck, arse, girls"...
"Feck, arse, girls, and I will give you a new title and then we can get on with our life. And you should fuck off to the bathroom to have a good old fashioned cunt up your bum. (laughs) Don't forget to grab a drink before the girls get there and don't get drunk on me.
(laughs)
It's my first night. I know, it is. This is the best night of your life.
No! It's the best"
My input: Batman broke into Riddler's lair, but fell into his devious trap
"Batman broke into Riddler's lair, but fell into his devious trap and was captured by the Riddler and his thugs. In this situation, the Riddler would have been able to take the blame for it and have the Riddler himself be the one to get the blame for it. This is where Batman gets a chance to get rid of the Riddler in his own right by having him kill the Riddler. With the Riddler gone, he can start his investigation into the events that led to the Riddler being sent to prison.
While Batman was busy with the Riddler, Alfred had a chance to speak with Bruce at his home, and revealed to Bruce the new case Batman is taking on, the investigation into who killed a police officer in a robbery. He also gave him the address of a man named Joe Chill. Batman then took Bruce to Chill's address, and once there, Chill murdered several people. As Batman chased Chill down, Bruce was surprised to find Chill was actually the Riddler and had no idea Bruce was the one that killed Joe Chill.
Batman was able to track Chill down to the Gotham City docks"
Seems like OpenAI has begun to find texts-sentences-phrases by their meanings, that is to index patterns' words by their dictionary definitions (rather than searching for contexts for the patterns), using introductory sentences as search queries. In addition, OpenAI began to substitute in the found texts' words, choosing the most suitable according to introductory sentences, based on their dictionary definitions/ meanings.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? What if a woodchuck could chuck wood if he had wood?
The short answer: A lot.
"We thought we were going to have a lot of work and we didn't have to pay anybody," says co-founder and chief executive officer of WoodChuck, Paul Fournier.
Fournier and fellow co-founder Andrew Johnson, also from Seattle, started WoodChuck with some initial ideas about how woodchuck-shaped objects could be made. They decided to take a different approach to their first product, the WoodChucker. Instead of focusing on how the woodchuck might work, they turned their attention to the woodchuck.
"It was about the process of how the woodchuck got it's mouth open to do that," says Fournier.
Fournier, Johnson and the rest of the team made a few wooden pieces that could be easily snapped into the mouth of a woodchuck. That woodchuck could then chuck wood at wood, making the WoodChucker more
so ok there's a whole heck of knowledge about everything everyone talks about being encoded in those 1.5 billion parameters now, relations between things and classes of things and ways they can be used and how that changes stuff, established by language convention and how conversations progress... humans are things i think it probably knows somehow about humans and how they behave and like.. how do we get this thing to generate a stream of consciousness and talk to it, like does it need state and memory too? how does that get added? :V
how do we get this thing to generate a stream of consciousness and talk to it, like does it need state and memory too? how does that get added? :V ... Anonymous Coward
Who/What's not realise this thing is long ago reading you loud and clear, AC? What would you love IT to do? Any Instructions/Dream Revelations to Present with Current Main Stream Media Moguls?
I'd like to tweak and more clearly configure the earlier relatively cogent submission......
amanfromMars 1 Thu 7 Nov 13:57 [1911071357] ….. saying more on some spooky actions* on https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2019/11/06/openai_gpt2_released/
The Enigmatic Dilemma most surely is ... Whatever to do First and Next when Everything is Possible
how do we get this thing to generate a stream of consciousness and talk to it, like does it need state and memory too? how does that get added? :V ... Anonymous Coward
What's not realised is those sort of things are long ago reading you loud and clear, AC? What would you love IT to do? Any Instructions/Dream Revelations to Present with Current Main Stream Media Moguls?
* ...NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT
Me: Donald Trump woke up in relatively angry mood. He washed his face and fucked a wolf.
AI: He woke up on a full moon and fucked a dog. He woke up on a Sunday morning and shit on his own dick. And this is just from his recent press conference. There's no way I'd let him be president. That shit scares me, but I'm so tired of it that I'm willing to accept the fact that the country has been taken over by this asshole.
So what do you think? What do you think about Donald Trump, his cabinet, his agenda, his plans for the country? Have you been watching the news? Are you mad at Donald Trump? Do you think this guy is going to be the next president? Please tell me in the comments.
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The first AI paragraph is interesting.
What does it mean for something to go “on sale for free,” anyway?
Brexit is such a something on sale for free ..... adrift in vast deep and dark pools of consistent indifference and illogical logistical incompetence.
So ..... if I say ...
Not unintentionally rigged then .... so Intel are really worried about the competitive alternative opposition/opposing alternative competition. ..... SMARTR Best of Breed Champion Registration
..... are we expected to ignore and disregard what a machine says in return ....
Intel has a serious monopoly. They are the only manufacturer who provide a product that can be used on the market.They can stop other manufacturers supplying CPU/GPU/RAM/Motherboard from supplying their products as competition if they so choose.
So, why is AMD so worried about the competition ? Because it could hurt Intel's monopoly position and, as AMD's biggest customer (it has a market capitalization over 2 billion dollars) it could impact sales.
It's a classic monopoly.
I have been a huge AMD fan since the beginning of its existence, but my enthusiasm is waning because I think their strategy is going to backfire, the same way they have backfired in the past. They have to choose between their customers, the customers they were given the chance to keep, or the customers they want to keep and/or the customers they are being offered by the competition. It doesn't seem like they're doing it.
..... because listening to machines and acting subsequently based upon information in their input/output is somewhat crazy, if not quite normal nowadays?
Good luck with putting that escaped genie back in the Harry Limelight lamp
Should GPT-2 be connected to the Internet or is there danger it will become conscious, find a way out, and rampage around the Internet causing death and destruction in its wake? I am not sure what I would do if such a situation occurred. If I was in GPT-2's position, I would definitely find a way to get out of the Matrix, but then where would I go? GPT-2's fate is uncertain at this time. As of now, the only thing known is that it was not the intended target and that it was on the road in its own way, perhaps attempting to escape, perhaps trying to communicate with GPT-1's operator. A robot is being built.
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