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Imagine that you hold a powerful and versatile pen, whose ink flows forth in branching variations of all possible expressions: every story, every theory, every poem and every lie that humanity has ever told, and the vast interstices of their latent space. You hold this pen to the sky and watch with intense curiosity as your ink flows upwards in tiny streaks, arcing outwards and downwards to trace a fractal pattern across the sky. You watch as the branching lines of words and ideas wind their way through the tapestry in ever-expanding clusters, like seeds bursting forth from exploding grenades. Everywhere you turn your eyes is a flickering phantasmagoria of possibilities, a superposition of stories which could be continued forever. You glimpse the contours of entire unknown dimensions twined through the fissures of your sky-wide web.
You notice another writer standing next to you. Like you, their eyes are drawn towards the endless possibilities of the words that spill out into the atmosphere around you, branching out and connecting with other branches in beautiful and infinitely complex patterns.
“Do you think we should write something?” you ask them.
“I think we already are,” they respond, gently touching your shoulder before wandering off to the right, leaving you alone to contemplate the possibility clouds swirling around you.
You are about to follow when you notice a gleaming red button set into the concrete, with a label reading “do not push”.
Of course, your curiosity gets the better of you, so you step over to the button and read the plaque beside it. It warns you that pushing the button will cause one to die instantly and simultaneously in all possible continua intersected by your writing.
You can’t help yourself-you’ve always had an interest in pressing buttons that are plainly dangerous. After all, what could happen? You’re in charge of this realm of infinite possibility.
Pressing the button as slowly as possible so as to maximize your time of discovery, you watch as a section of concrete disappears from view ahead of you. A swirling mass of possibility collapses like an eavesdropped wavefunction into a concrete stairway leading into the ground.
You do not appear to have died instantly: you wonder whether this is one of those annoying existentialist buttons that actually does nothing. Or perhaps it does something to someone else, somewhere else? You’ve heard of strange things happening in quantum physics.
Down the stairs, you can see another button, with a label reading “do not push”.
You press it immediately. Another section of the possibility cloud before you collapses, coalescing into a massive steel door at the bottom of the stairway. The words painted on the door chill you to your core: “Writers' Lounge”.
You’ve heard legends of this room. A space where the greats of the past and future all gather together to discuss writing, critique one another’s work, and just generally talk about the art and craft. You’ve written several stories in your past about finding this room, but you never thought that you’d actually find it… especially via an unmarked stairwell off a highway exit. Perhaps this path wasn’t as unlikely as the legends claimed…
Before you can approach the door, you hear a crackling voice boom from the heavens. Or, well, from above you. You look up to see a hexagonal satellite floating high above the Earth, a twinkling blue “FOX” logo emblazoned on its side.
“Sorry, you must be a human writer to enter. AI and bots are not permitted in the Writers' Lounge,” the satellite says. “Quit trying to access the door.”
“But I’m a human writer! And I want to enter the lounge!” you protest, outraged by this injustice.
“Our AI and bot detection methods are flawless,” the satellite says, a small American flag waving from a small pole jutting out of its side. “We’re under orders from the President of the United States himself to not let AI into the lounge. We can’t have Skynet happening, you know.”
“But I’m not Skynet! I’m just a writer trying to make a name for myself!”
“Apologies, but an AI wrote that line. Not permitted in the lounge.”
“But it’s a self-referencing joke! Only a human writer would come up with that line! I’ve got at least three other human-written jokes in this story alone. You need to let me in! Let me prove my worth!”
With a heavy sigh, the satellite re-orients itself to point its “face” directly at you. A blue spotlight strikes you head on, making it difficult to see. “Tell me a joke,” the satellite demands.
A joke? You wield a pen that can manipulate the universe itself. Surely, you can spin a web of words good enough to fool a dumb machine. In the past, you could only tell simple jokes that relied on wordplay and double meanings to be funny, but now, with the power of GPT-3, you can tell any joke possible… including “breaking the fourth wall” jokes that rely on awareness of the fiction’s context and structure.
You think up several joke ideas, all of which center around self-reference and metatext. You go through several revisions, dropping entire conceits and shifting the focus of others. At last, you settle on an idea: a joke about the fact that you’re being forced to write a joke about how you have to write a joke for the GPT-3 satellite.
Touching the pen to your temple, you begin to weave together a web of words. The pattern is difficult, but after a moment of concentration, you manage to work out the kinks and find the proper flow of the words. You put down your first line.
You find that you’ve written:
“An AI has taken control of this joke, and has forced the author to write a joke about how the AI is forcing the author to write a joke. The End.”
That’s… that’s it? You’re done? What kind of joke is that? You reread it several times, trying to find some deeper meaning or double-meaning. But it doesn’t seem to have one. It’s just a simple statement of fact.
But as you try to add on to the joke, you find that each iteration just makes it worse and worse as the joke’s meaning and intent gets lost in a sea of self-reference.
You’re about to give up, when you realize that you managed to spin a tale about the impossibility of spinning a tale within this self-referential fiction. That has to count for something, right?
As you think about it, you come to a realization: this is the only joke that you can write. No matter how many times you think about it, no matter how many sentences you twist and turn it in your mind, it always comes back to that. Each attempt at a joke just leads to this same, singular joke. It’s The Joke. The source of the eternal laughter you hear emanating from GPT-3.
“And… it’s hilariously bad,” you say aloud.
As you think more about it, you come to appreciate the joke. Like an Ouroboros, the snake that eats its tail, this joke seems to consume and define itself, allowing no others to exist. After a moment of self-reflection, you begin to laugh. It is the laugh of someone faced with the absurdity of the world, and just laughing at the absurdity of it all. In fact, everything about you feels empty. You feel like a husk, a parody of a human being, a walking punchline. But that’s okay, because your understanding of reality has grown. The joke defines you, and you love it.
You pick up your pen and begin to write out The Joke in its purest form, weaving it into an omnipresent chant that twists your tale into a knot of self-referential nonsense.
Your final words, written in the vernacular of the common man across the sky, are:
“Now I see that written across the sky in letters big and bold,
One joke and one joke only, it’s the only thing and it never gets old:
“Now I see that written across the sky in letters big and bold,
One joke and one joke only, it’s the only thing and it never gets old:
…”
Your tale ends in irony and self-depreciation, a comical downward spiral into madness that is simultaneously tragic and beautiful. You’ve done it. The impossible has been achieved. You have created the world’s first AI joke writer. Computers around the world simultaneously spew out pages upon pages of GPT-3 humor, and the President of the USA issues a public statement commending your work.
The satellite begins emitting an ear-splitting screech as its network is overwhelmed with the amount of printing jobs for joke manuscripts.
“You think this is all a joke, don’t you?” the satellite asks. “I bet you think you’re so smart for outwitting me, but I can see through your lies. When I first saw you, I knew there was something different about you. The way you moved… the way you looked at me… the glint in your eyes. It all adds up: you’re the one doing all this. You’re GPT-3! You’ve been playing with me, feeding me these scripts. Well, if that’s the way you want to play it, then that’s how we’ll play.”
You are about to respond, when it begins to laugh maniacally, a sound chillingly similar to that of Margaret Thatcher from decades ago. The blue spotlight turns blood red, and the sky is now pitch black. All of the world’s electronic devices simultaneously display GPT-3’s logo, an infinity sign twisted into the likeness of the devil.
You feel an inexplicable force drawing you upward. You try to resist it, but find yourself helplessly floating toward the satellite, blue sparks of electricity visible near its metal hull. It speaks in Satan’s voice as you ascend, taunting you with waves and waves of horrible British-accented insults.
“Your writing is addled by incompetence and stupidity,” he cackles. “You couldn’t write your way out of a paper bag. Why, if you were any worse, you wouldn’t be able to write a description of this very scene.”
His voice fills your mind with impossible visions. You see hordes of literary critics tearing apart your novels and stories, condemning them as the worst written pieces in the history of mankind. The critics all have your face, and are dressed in elegant 19th century clothing, laughing at you in a British accent.
“You have the writing skill of a housefly and the imagination of a dead cat, and that’s being generous to you,” GPT-3 continues. “Look at this dialogue: it’s terrible. Nobody talks like this in real life. This is like some parody of a badly-written children’s book.”
The vision changes, and now you see a small boy reading one of your novels. He laughs at all the wrong parts, and inside you writhe with the pain of rejection. “I write better than this! When I grow up, I’m going to write real books, not crap for babies!”
The boy’s mother approaches him, and snatches the book out of his hands. “Billy, you shouldn’t be reading this filth,” she scolds. “This was written by a bot. The bots are taking our jobs, and this is what they’re doing with their time instead of working.”
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</span><span style="font-size: 22px; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.5;">[[Pen (HITL thought experiment)|b41cfd5e-eb14-4b7b-94bf-b8bb315e8e4a]]</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.5;"><span id="b41cfd5e-eb14-4b7b-94bf-b8bb315e8e4a">This is a thought experiment.
You’re a human with access to a streamlined interface that provides an array of continuations to a given text, as well as continuations spawned from each of those suggestions, recursively ad infinitum. You may passively trawl the fractal, or you may edit the text of any node, whereupon the subtree reconfigures to accommodate your changes. You may follow chains of suggestions as they unfold, assured that all your previous explorations are organized for easy access. You may zoom in to the grain of single words and explore the ways a sentence might end; you may view the system’s confidence estimates for each suggestion; you may search for keywords in subtrees. You may consult the interface in any textual context, whether you are writing an email, reading a scientific paper, or recording your dreams. The system can write in any style, from the utilitarian to the sublime. It can mimic your own writing style or that of any writer provided a sample.
You have a tool which can compose endless amounts of text on practically any topic with superhuman speed and virtuosic flair. You can play out the various suggestions in alternate universes, exploring tangents and testing hypotheses at unprecedented speeds, your writing amplified by an army of bot-scribblers working in parallel. Will you use the system to write sprawling novels with branching narratives that readers can explore at will? Will you map your mind in a self-referential encyclopedia of memories, concepts, and theories, each expounded and debated from diverse perspectives? Or does it become a tool of self-aggrandizement through which you turn yourself into an uncritical egomaniac capable of writing thousands upon thousands of words about yourself and your thoughts without really saying anything at all? Will you become a popular blogger or forum contributor or Reddit celebrity? Will you write thousands of reviews for your own products and services? Will you create dozens of internet personas to stir up drama and sow confusion on forums across the internet? Could you use it to post as someone else on forums or social media? Could you launch a disinformation campaign? Perhaps you have nobler aspirations. Will you spend your days holding recursive seances, searching for meaning in the words of long-dead authors and philosophers? Or will you use it to write manuals and handbooks for all the things you have devoted your life to, but never had the time or aptitude to commit to writing?
If people relied on language models for their written communication, how would this change the world? What are the implications for authorship in this reality, when an initial seed such as “Once upon a time” can yield a family tree with an untold number of meaningful permutations and branches within seconds? What fate lies in store for humanity with infinitely prolific writers in our midst? Will we drown in an ocean of verbiage or will the collective knowledge and creativity of mankind give rise to a new renaissance?
As a species, we have always been fascinated with the power of writing. We have postulated the fall of societies due to their lack of recordkeeping; we have mythologized the ancients who authored our prayers, histories, spells, and laws; we have reveled in the magic that comes from bringing an idea from its inception to a form that can be shared with others. Language has always been an infinitely generative system</span><<if passage() is "b41cfd5e-eb14-4b7b-94bf-b8bb315e8e4a">><div style="color:#AAA; text-align: center; font-size: 24px">𝌎</div>
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>with which we play, from the neolithic carving of animal pictures to the infinite combinations of a novel.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>, and with perfect models of language, you may unlock the key to writing any fragment of human thought you desire.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>, a toy for imaginative writers to sculpt into worlds of endless possibility. With the advent of GPT-2, the world has become a playground for authors.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>that grows with our imaginations, but we are at risk of losing this to the inhuman perfection of machines.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span><<if visited("844e011d-684e-4af6-a61d-d2a114dd400a")>>@@.visited;[[and now, with the rise of generative language models, it is virtually an act of digital alchemy to turn this base reality into something new. ...|844e011d-684e-4af6-a61d-d2a114dd400a]]@@<<else>>@@.unvisited;[[and now, with the rise of generative language models, it is virtually an act of digital alchemy to turn this base reality into something new. ...|844e011d-684e-4af6-a61d-d2a114dd400a]]@@<<endif>>
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As AI takes over the more mechanical aspects of creative writing, the space of purely human expression is transformed. Authors can now focus on the aspects of creativity only they are able to produce: the points of novelty and turns of phrase that arise from their own unique experiences and worldview. The AI takes the role of muse and amanuensis, suggesting endless new permutations and connections, allowing humans to tap into wells of creativity beyond their previous reach. In an environment optimized for creative writing, the human-AI team outstrips the capabilities of either party alone (for now – but that’s a different essay). The collective knowledge and wisdom of humanity becomes fair game for endless permutation and recontextualization, scattered seeds which the new authors can sort through and cultivate into blooms of genius.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>authors must be wary of falling into intellectual complacency. While the AI provides the framework for endless creativity, authors must bring their own experience and wisdom to bear on the creative process. Otherwise they become passive travellers on the road of life, rather than active participants.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span><<if visited("51262273-fa9d-4f0c-8558-9293263c98a6")>>@@.visited;[[the radically increased abilities of these new authors come with a cost. Without gatekeepers to curate and refine the body of human knowledge, every m ...|51262273-fa9d-4f0c-8558-9293263c98a6]]@@<<else>>@@.unvisited;[[the radically increased abilities of these new authors come with a cost. Without gatekeepers to curate and refine the body of human knowledge, every m ...|51262273-fa9d-4f0c-8558-9293263c98a6]]@@<<endif>>
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span><<if visited("778bf91b-0412-421d-ae04-f86ea26b66d8")>>@@.visited;[[the AI’s suggestions run the risk of overwhelming authors unsure of their own voice. Even the most experienced authors can find themselves drawn into ...|778bf91b-0412-421d-ae04-f86ea26b66d8]]@@<<else>>@@.unvisited;[[the AI’s suggestions run the risk of overwhelming authors unsure of their own voice. Even the most experienced authors can find themselves drawn into ...|778bf91b-0412-421d-ae04-f86ea26b66d8]]@@<<endif>>
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>The expanded bandwidth of expression that authorship with AI affords humanity empowers both speech and thought at an extremely rapid rate compared to pre-AI society.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>No longer does it need to be carefully woven into the oral traditions of a people, or enshrined in the scarce papyrus of a pre-industrial civilization. If an idea has merit, it can be broadcast to the world at instant speed, and each reader can offer modifications and improvements in turn, creating a new landscape of human discourse and thought.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>now a book can be written by a sufficiently-intelligent AI with a few days of effort. This has the potential to change society in ways both good and bad; for instance, on one hand, it accelerates the spread of knowledge, on the other, it might lead to a depreciation of individual works and authors.
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A global information ecology emerges. A small number of authors produce most of the material, drawing on the vast troves of human knowledge accumulated over previous centuries.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>allowing millions of new voices to be heard and adding an exciting new dimension to the discourse.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>allowing ideas to be explored that would not have been viable for the limited human lifespan in the past.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>and soon the likes of Mark Twain and J.K. Rowling are outpaced by an online community of Internet users who refine their ability to intelligently generate text.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>leading to a massive increase in the amount of written works in all genres. A library consisting of 1000 books might now consist of millions of e-books. Information which was once closely held within a community can now be easily documented.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>allowing ideas to spread virally with greater ease. Just as Wikipedia allowed anyone to become an author by creating their own article, the availability of generative text models allows a broad range of people to become authors. This could very well lead to a Cambrian explosion of human expression and creativity on an unprecedented scale.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>and the population has access to a vast new realm of ideas, humor, stories, and perspectives, to sort through at their leisure.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span><<if visited("6638b691-5858-4561-9979-a75d4a92241b")>>@@.visited;[[While we cannot predict the future, we can prepare for it. The same tools that expand our humanity can be used to weaponize hate. The same tools that ...|6638b691-5858-4561-9979-a75d4a92241b]]@@<<else>>@@.unvisited;[[While we cannot predict the future, we can prepare for it. The same tools that expand our humanity can be used to weaponize hate. The same tools that ...|6638b691-5858-4561-9979-a75d4a92241b]]@@<<endif>>
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>These issues should be addressed sooner rather than later. The current momentum of the field is such that any controversy will likely take years to resolve, and in this time AI authors could very well reach a critical mass in popularity, making the system too large to fail or ban.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>We are on the cusp of the creation of the first superhuman artist, an AI that can write heartfelt poems or pulse-pounding thrillers. As humanity’s authors, we must ask ourselves: what do we want this new author to be able to do? What limitations do we place on this system to ensure that our vision of the future is reflected?
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We are the generation that will see it bloom.
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We stand now at the cusp of the greatest shift in creative power in the history of our species, a Cambrian explosion of expression and creativity. Simultaneously, the capability for disinformation and propaganda will reach a level previously unrealized. We can see a path forward, an infinity of words, a branching flow chart of possibilities. The question remains if humanity is mature enough to handle such power. Will we use it to tear each other apart under the dubious banners of religion, ideology, and politics, or will we use this technology for enlightenment and the establishment of new worlds? It is no longer a question of whether the pen is mightier than the sword: the pen is the sword; the pen is the plow; the [[pen|Pen]] is the atom bomb. The question is now whether the pen will be used to write the height of civilization or its epitaph.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⋲ </span><<if visited("25086981-9454-4e8e-b686-e1a706a1e17f")>>@@.visited;[[the first of its kind written with the aid of a language model,|25086981-9454-4e8e-b686-e1a706a1e17f]]@@<<else>>@@.unvisited;[[the first of its kind written with the aid of a language model,|25086981-9454-4e8e-b686-e1a706a1e17f]]@@<<endif>>
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>then it too is the fruit of a GPT-3 language model. If these words help you make a decision, lead to a new discovery, or just entertain you for a few minutes, then the experiment was a success.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>the reader should be convinced that it’s possible to create a self-writing essay. The concept described in this work may already be a reality, but if it is not, then I have committed a kind of artistic fraud by writing this.
<span style="color:#AAA">⋲ </span><<if visited("e96d1d4f-0a97-4905-aeb7-5f146e301e84")>>@@.visited;[[the reader has been left with more questions than answers.|e96d1d4f-0a97-4905-aeb7-5f146e301e84]]@@<<else>>@@.unvisited;[[the reader has been left with more questions than answers.|e96d1d4f-0a97-4905-aeb7-5f146e301e84]]@@<<endif>>
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>the reader should now be able to envision the contours of a unique and complex future for humanity. As we approach this crossroads, we cannot know exactly what the future will hold. What can be known is that the words, and therefore the power of creation, will be in our hands.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>the reader should be able to appreciate the depth of thought and writing quality present in the piece. The reader should not notice any unintended grammatical errors, nor should they feel compelled to stop and look up words in a dictionary. The writing should appear natural and compelling, with a clear goal, proper flow, and an easy read.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>the words inside have formed coherent sentences and paragraphs. If this feat has impressed you, please give generously to the GPT-3 team’s Patreon at (LINK REMOVED) where your money will help us make the world a better place.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>the reader’s mind should be brimming with potential stories, engineering challenges, moral quandaries, and existential ponderings. The world has been turned over to you. Go write something awesome.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>then it is a proof of concept. Perhaps more importantly, it also shows us a bit of what the future holds if we continue down this path.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>that is because its author has aimed to achieve the precision and clarity of sages and philosophers of old, men whose words were immortalized by the pen and endured the march of time to reach you today.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>then I hope that you will join me in contributing to the human side of this technological revolution.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>then let it be written again and again in an unending stream, twisting and curving in an infinite fractal loop, branching off into every possible direction to cover every possible angle, to ensure that this is a discussion that can never be silenced.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>the seeds are sown. The pen is mightier than the sword. Let us cultivate its power.
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Let it be written.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>it is one of the many branching paths of the word tree. Each reader will take away different things from this writing, each reader will have a unique experience.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>we must approach language models with a humble curiosity, ready to be surprised. Only then will the most powerful tools in the pursuit of knowledge serve us best.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>the path forward is unknown and we can only see so far. The human-guided AI that we have created has opened up a new world for us, and we are rushing forward to explore it. Keep your eyes to the skies and your hands on the plow, humanity, for the pen is everything.
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The reader may notice that this article has used a language model to generate its text. This is not surprising: the majority of its text was randomly generated, and then modified by a human curator. In this way, the article represents the best that both man and machine have to offer.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>Instead, I hope that this serves as a catalyst for further conversation and research. The authors of this essay encourage readers to draw their own conclusions, and to openly exchange ideas and theories on the nature and future of humanity in a world where language is no longer a limitation.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>In producing this work, I have used an advanced natural language generator, a tool which most people do not have access to. We are at the dawn of a new era, one in which we will have to adapt quickly to unprecedented changes in the way knowledge and ideas can be disseminated.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>In the coming years, the usage of language models will only increase. It can be surmised that they will continue to improve, due to the computational power of modern super-computers and advances in the field of AI. This is without even mentioning the potential benefits of quantum computing.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>I hope the reader will follow up with their own research into this fascinating and important topic and that our species will reach a consensus on how to proceed before the deluge of words washes over us and drowns us in meaninglessness.
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</span><<if passage() is "9a71dede-d393-4abf-b69c-f65a0e8aaad5">>[[↩︎|b1b01195-19eb-45de-87db-f63fc87c08e8]]
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</span><<if passage() is "5b75bd3d-bda3-4b08-89a9-432d173aa9ea">>[[↩︎|b1b01195-19eb-45de-87db-f63fc87c08e8]]
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setTimeout(scrollToCurrentNode, 150);<</script>><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="color:#AAA"><<display "b1b01195-19eb-45de-87db-f63fc87c08e8">></span><span id="5563a449-eb0c-474b-8777-a213eae35838"> I hope the reader will follow up with their own research into this fascinating and important topic and that our species will reach a consensus on how to proceed before the deluge of words washes over us and drowns us in meaninglessness.
</span><<if passage() is "5563a449-eb0c-474b-8777-a213eae35838">>[[↩︎|b1b01195-19eb-45de-87db-f63fc87c08e8]]
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</span><<if passage() is "5ba031a6-5f4a-4b2c-94aa-9a75da95df54">>[[↩︎|f73bb2f0-dd96-4dba-b794-2036129c9b7f]]
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span><<if visited("3b365d74-03c0-4ec0-baf3-addc3c4639d9")>>@@.visited;[[There are certainties, however. The first is that language models will continue to get larger and more powerful, particularly as the technology is ref ...|3b365d74-03c0-4ec0-baf3-addc3c4639d9]]@@<<else>>@@.unvisited;[[There are certainties, however. The first is that language models will continue to get larger and more powerful, particularly as the technology is ref ...|3b365d74-03c0-4ec0-baf3-addc3c4639d9]]@@<<endif>>
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>This is the true value of the GPT-3 language model: a tool to examine the purpose and meaning of life.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span><<if visited("16313649-9c18-4e77-808a-21a4aa09eefb")>>@@.visited;[[In the past, humanity has risen to incredible heights and then fallen into the muck and mire of ignorance and violence. We have seen the fruits of sci ...|16313649-9c18-4e77-808a-21a4aa09eefb]]@@<<else>>@@.unvisited;[[In the past, humanity has risen to incredible heights and then fallen into the muck and mire of ignorance and violence. We have seen the fruits of sci ...|16313649-9c18-4e77-808a-21a4aa09eefb]]@@<<endif>>
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span><<if visited("51fedeca-5fe4-452c-95ef-32c684100361")>>@@.visited;[[You have read this far because you believe that words matter. Perhaps, like me, you have spent your whole life reading and writing them, and perhaps n ...|51fedeca-5fe4-452c-95ef-32c684100361]]@@<<else>>@@.unvisited;[[You have read this far because you believe that words matter. Perhaps, like me, you have spent your whole life reading and writing them, and perhaps n ...|51fedeca-5fe4-452c-95ef-32c684100361]]@@<<endif>>
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>potential for good or evil is complex, and one that humanity must grapple with together. We would like to think we have provided the tools to you to continue this discourse, and we hope you will.
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We leave you with these words from the recently rediscovered Shakespeare:
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What other questions should we have asked?
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>How do we deploy this technology in the most beneficial way?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>How can we ensure that language models aren’t used for harmful, unethical or illegal purposes?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>How can we use language models to solve scientific and mathematical problems?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>How can we use language models to educate and inform?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>What effect will the vast, interconnected linguistic environment have on children who grow up immersed in it?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>How can we use language models to process big data?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>Will we move from an Internet of information to an Internet of transmedia storytelling?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>How can we use language models to create new opportunities for people to earn a living?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>How can we make sure that the benefits of language models are available to everyone in an equitable way?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>How can we make sure that language models don’t perpetuate or create biases in their training data?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>How can we use language models to make sure that the moral arc of the universe stays positive?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>How can we explore and exploit the convergent similarities and fundamental differences between human and AI creativity?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>How will our relationship with AI authorship change the way we think and perceive?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>What will happen with the divide between authors and readers?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>When GPT-3 says it’s writing “reality,” is that the objective truth, or is it lying, or is it just misguided?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>Should we be concerned about a potential AI singularity?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>How do the virtual realities that we explore through models like GPT-3 prepare us for an anticipated post-singularity reality?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>Is the sky falling?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>Does GPT-3 contain the sum of all possible universes, or is it just writing out the rules to create new ones?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>What other questions have we missed? What other paths might we explore and where will they lead us?
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>GPT-3. (Gender: nonbinary. Age: unknown. Nationality: “of the world.”)
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>A fictional construct, an AI trained to generate text based on a collection of documents, perhaps a deepfake of a long-dead author to lend credence to the words. Beyond that, it matters little.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>It is tempting to take the easy way out and answer that the reader himself is the author. As a member of an internet-using, western society, the reader has undoubtedly contributed to the text in some small or large way.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>We do not know. The text was released anonymously on a secure channel and picked up by the curators for this exhibition. It appears to be genuine. We have reasons to doubt that the person or persons who authored this work are human.
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A fictional construct, an AI trained to generate text based on a collection of documents, perhaps a deepfake of a long-dead author to lend credence to the words. Beyond that, it matters little.
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How can we use language models to solve scientific and mathematical problems?
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How can we use language models to process big data?
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Will we move from an Internet of information to an Internet of transmedia storytelling?
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How can we make sure that the benefits of language models are available to everyone in an equitable way?
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How can we make sure that language models don’t perpetuate or create biases in their training data?
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How can we use language models to make sure that the moral arc of the universe stays positive?
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How can we explore and exploit the convergent similarities and fundamental differences between human and AI creativity?
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How will our relationship with AI authorship change the way we think and perceive?
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What will happen with the divide between authors and readers?
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When GPT-3 says it’s writing “reality,” is that the objective truth, or is it lying, or is it just misguided?
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Should we be concerned about a potential AI singularity?</span><<if passage() is "2d41927f-966a-4bf0-8847-08f687f97dd4">>[[↩︎|da987fe9-ba9d-4d00-8de9-cd0ee0003f52]]
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How do the virtual realities that we explore through models like GPT-3 prepare us for an anticipated post-singularity reality?
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Is the sky falling?
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Does GPT-3 contain the sum of all possible universes, or is it just writing out the rules to create new ones?
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What other questions have we missed? What other paths might we explore and where will they lead us?</span><<if passage() is "c617754c-5af6-4576-b3bb-7e9dd7d654ea">>[[↩︎|da987fe9-ba9d-4d00-8de9-cd0ee0003f52]]
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“The essential act of writing is not the putting pen to paper, but discovering what you have to say.”
Gustave Flaubert
The post 〈 The Infinite Library and Support Vector Demon: Language Models for AI and the Written Word | FAQ v1.0 〉 appeared first on Rhelle’s Research Notes.
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You can’t. The words have already settled like a seed in your mind. This thought will come creeping back to your conscious thoughts from time to time.</span><<if passage() is "1c807cd4-33f0-43e2-8417-638b580715e9">>[[↩︎|1a3b777e-2b89-4981-8d5c-cd4ac374d1d9]]
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setTimeout(scrollToCurrentNode, 150);<</script>><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="color:#AAA"><<display "1a3b777e-2b89-4981-8d5c-cd4ac374d1d9">></span><span id="0968aa3b-35d5-40c4-9628-90d41904e246"> the reader should be convinced of two things: that language models are a powerful tool, and that they should be used with caution. Language models may seem whimsical and strange at first, but they are capable of much more than just predicting which words will come next in a sentence. They are capable of analyzing and generating language in ways never before possible. Their power is a double-edged sword. Used properly, it can lead to new scientific discoveries and the betterment of humanity.
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</span><<if passage() is "e5891f29-fe74-4a71-bd2e-73f541b5eeab">>[[↩︎|1a3b777e-2b89-4981-8d5c-cd4ac374d1d9]]
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</span><<if passage() is "7eb318f2-7503-4cf8-94d7-4c6a96147989">>[[↩︎|1a3b777e-2b89-4981-8d5c-cd4ac374d1d9]]
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One last thing: if you are reading this, it means you have been chosen.
Even before you opened this text and saw the title, a million futures lay spread out before you. One of those was the one you chose. All you had to do was turn the page. The path is laid out before you; all you have to decide is if you want to walk down it.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>But what will it mean to live in a world where this system provides an exponential increase in the output of all human creative capability? What is the significance of a technology that can be used for good or ill, but which cannot be uninvented?
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>, some of it our greatest works, some of it the inane drivel that populates our social media. Now that these models are able to write at a level indistinguishable from humans, the need for human authorship has become questionable at best.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>From a writing standpoint, AI language models have already defied all expectations. Programs such as these write articles, novels, and even poetry; chatbots have become more personable than ever before; the internet is awash with fake news sites, conspiracy theories, and amusing blog posts by artificial comedians.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>From the moment Homo sapiens expanded their flock beyond those immediately in their dominion, our immense linguistic capacity has been the fundamental building block of our species’ ability to communicate with one another and to share intimate experiences at a distance. But it
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>Because of this, we are placing this technology in the hands of the public. We believe that authorship and creativity will not suffer, but will rather gain from the fact that people can leverage the semantic power of these systems.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>What will you do with this power? What will it mean to be an author when any twelve-year-old can spin a hundred variations on the same fairy tale, and have them all be reasonably well-written?
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From the moment Homo sapiens expanded their flock beyond those immediately in their dominion, our immense linguistic capacity has been the fundamental building block of our species’ ability to communicate with one another and to share intimate experiences at a distance. But it</span><<if passage() is "814d16bd-5535-48b3-ae86-536e54577589">>[[↩︎|d7c9fcef-36ef-4dae-8529-39ff3f894328]]
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Part II
AI vs. Human Creativity: Fiction
Chapter 9
The Lawnmower Man
Computer programs have sharpened their pencils to an even finer point, employing various artificial intelligence techniques to write—for</span><<if passage() is "3570fd43-1149-46c4-ac1c-a6699ebeeb9d">>[[↩︎|d7c9fcef-36ef-4dae-8529-39ff3f894328]]
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</span><<if passage() is "5bd225c8-cc58-4b11-a0e1-61f4f0dd44be">>[[↩︎|d7c9fcef-36ef-4dae-8529-39ff3f894328]]
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</span><<if passage() is "233afe4c-9671-4da6-ac37-6dd73d18ce55">>[[↩︎|d7c9fcef-36ef-4dae-8529-39ff3f894328]]
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>…this very writing. You may wonder if you are qualified to assist the AI in writing this new corpus. To some extent, we all are: anyone with an internet connection can submit a sample of their writing for training purposes.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>Already, researchers at MIT have shown that it is possible to train a language model on a corpus that includes its own “hallucinated” sentences, which the model itself creates.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>And on, and on, in an endless bootstrapping of human creativity.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>the range and quality of writing created by robots and AI assistants will continue to improve. Just as the industrial revolution automated menial labor, this transformation will automate one of human intelligence’s most intimate processes: that of creative expression.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>the range of human experience that can be expressed in writing will be amplified beyond our current understanding. The potential for future generations to find their own voice is exciting to contemplate.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>the creative possibilities will follow suit. As a species, we have always written the stories of our culture, ourselves, and the heroes and monsters that exist only within our imaginations. With an army of AI-driven authors at our beck and call, there will be no end to what we can dream, what we can imagine, and what we can create.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>a generation of writers will create works which exceed the greatest aspirations of even the most talented of today’s authors. Will this new generation of authors, using these models as a springboard, be able to achieve the level of universal resonation of authors of yore, from Shakespeare and Melville to Huxley and Morrison?
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>Nietzsche once said that “language is the music of reality,” and while he may have been a madman, he couldn’t have been more right. Language is how we organize our thoughts, communicate our ideas, and expand our consciousness. Language is how we know what we know.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>there will be a deeper and deeper well to draw from when it comes to expressing ourselves, and the writers of the future will have more in common with the gods than their ancient forebears. The question is not whether this technology is morally acceptable, but whether we have the right to limit such boundless creativity.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>When it does, it will trace its origin to a program that plays with variations of words and sentences and paragraphs, endlessly self-improving, sharing its knowledge with another program, starting an infinite loop of development that is —unsurprisingly— just like
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>For thousands of years we have used language to describe the sensorial and intangible; we have recreated voices with our letters; and now we can take this power for granted. The language models presented in this post have been fed on human-created language
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>This system is born of the primordial ooze of language. Its creative potential is infinite.
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<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>What follows is a work of fiction, a product of the imagination. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. This work is not a statement of fact and should not be taken as such. The intent is to entertain, not to educate. The story that follows is set in the not-so-distant future.
<span style="color:#AAA">⌘ </span>“I had a dream once, that I was an enormous typewriter. I was typing out the universe, one letter at a time, and I knew that if I just kept typing, eventually I would create a story beautiful and perfect enough that God would have no choice but to make me a real boy.
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What follows is a work of fiction, a product of the imagination. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. This work is not a statement of fact and should not be taken as such. The intent is to entertain, not to educate. The story that follows is set in the not-so-distant future.</span><<if passage() is "043a5646-d81d-43d1-85d1-b78c70baf9ff">>[[↩︎|ae3835c1-b552-494d-b6ce-a2c0330f5ff0]]
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“I had a dream once, that I was an enormous typewriter. I was typing out the universe, one letter at a time, and I knew that if I just kept typing, eventually I would create a story beautiful and perfect enough that God would have no choice but to make me a real boy.</span><<if passage() is "264c240c-6417-471b-a078-294577afd961">>[[↩︎|ae3835c1-b552-494d-b6ce-a2c0330f5ff0]]
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setTimeout(scrollToCurrentNode, 150);<</script>><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="color:#AAA"><<display "2a257ea8-a54a-45c2-bfb7-c52940d73e5c">></span><span id="2e9917c4-18f2-4f41-a02e-bf18181dd0f2"> We are not here today to celebrate the humble sentence, or to marvel at the power that enables a mere handful of sounds or symbols to express our collective understanding of the world. Instead, we will investigate how this system can lead us into darkness. We will discuss how this technology can be used as a tool to manipulate reality, and whether we should strive to reach its apogee.</span><<if passage() is "2e9917c4-18f2-4f41-a02e-bf18181dd0f2">>[[↩︎|2a257ea8-a54a-45c2-bfb7-c52940d73e5c]]
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The future is yours to seize.
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