Comment by marcodiego | Hacker News Reader

Comment by marcodiego | Hacker News Reader

Seems good, starting with "Today I wake up and" it gave the following:

Today I wake up and eat my breakfast in silence. Alone. I am actually kinda happy with that. I listen to some podcasts and read the news before leaving to get a couple of documents together. I’m going to my mom’s today to have a meeting regarding my eviction notice. My mom still lives with my dad. I can’t ask him to do anything, though, I guess. I was always so used to having to ask for stuff, that I completely forgot I could get people to do what I want for me. My mom, for instance, is not as bad as my dad, and I actually don’t mind asking her to help me with everything. It makes me feel like she loves me. I know that this is a small thing, but it’s something that makes me happy.

I get to my mom’s apartment at 5:30. The place is very nice. There is a roof terrace, an elevator that goes up and down (where can you find something like that in an apartment building?!), and all rooms have their own AC units. All of the furniture is in good shape. The appliances were also all upgraded recently, so there is a full washer/dryer, a coff

Given:

> I wanted to write a language model, but all I got was

Got (including the `[...]` in the middle; that is, everything beyond this trailing colon is its result):

I wanted to write a language model, but all I got was a rabbit." --Richard Feynman

Though I might not have gotten the overall award for RPL, I certainly came in close for the more specific one of having the highest score in a core language spec proposal. And yes, there were more than two people (including me) that submitted those, but somehow a few of my friends and I pushed it over the top. So I wanted to give credit where credit is due, so I present this write up of my proposal and the (not so minor) additions that were needed to get it through (I may have exaggerated at times but it really isn't much).

[...]

Thanks everyone for voting, I'd really like to go to the hackercon in august so I can build a portable terminal that I can give to everyone in the congress... as a shameless self-promotion, I'll offer all attendees a guaranteed savings on the discount package

Yes, you do lose some points for a paper that you haven't quite finished, but that's what the RPL is all about - the unfinished.

Since I want to go to RPL I would like to know if someone can explain to me why I have lost any points. I have deleted my paper from the site

Somebody finally went out and disrupted Loren Ipsum

That's jibberish though. Is the bar for good "AI" still that it frequently writes sentences that, in isolation, could pass as coherent writing but string a couple together and it's a train wreck?

You serious? I could have turned that in as a highschool short story assignment.

Exactly.

It's far from jibberish. This is impressive.

I find a lot of these computer generated text and art feel very much trying to remember a dream - there is a feeling of it making perfect sense until you try to explain it.

It's cohesive at the micro level without expressing anything at the macro level. It's like train of thought writing except it eventually contradicts earlier details and doesn't necessarily elaborate on anything it builds up to.

The parent comment is right that it is gibberish, but it's also wrong in that its comprehensible at the surface level. There's just no depth to it because it is just trying to replicate a form without function.

It's jibberish and not impressive in the slightest. This is roughly the state of the art in "AI". It can't even write one single coherent short paragraph. Not even after having 800GB of coherent paragraphs to look at and countless trillions of computations to train with.

Now, "AI" has its uses of course, and this jibberish generator probably has uses too. The generator itself is not impressive at all to me though. Someone finding a useful application for such a thing would be impressive, but not this text.

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