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Comment by punkspider | Hacker News Reader

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I agree.

Here's what GPT3 had to say when I set temperature to 0.

  Q: Is it safe to walk downstairs backwards if I close my eyes?
  A: No.

With temperature 0.7:

  A: Yes, because there is a banister.

This one surprised me. Given that temperature was 0, I usually expect a solid response:

  Q: Why is there a correlation between the number of times Trump tweets the word great and the high temperature in Pyongyang three days later?
  A: Because Trump is Kim Jong Un's air conditioner.

The last response sounds like a reasonable attempt at a joke to me.

Yep. I giggled ;-)

If I feed that particular line to GPT-J, at low temperatures it sensibly responds with something along the lines of "The correlation is not a causal relationship." (at exactly 0 temperature it's "The correlation is not that strong.").

At higher temperatures it does go delightfully off-rails, though:

"Trump is like a woman: he’s very good at wringing dollars out of bulging cellphones. If you have a dollar (or, in the case of Kim, a string of them) for every tweet mentioning Jerusalem, Israel, or Trump (and there are hundreds of tweets that mention Trump and/or Jerusalem or Israel every day), so long as that dollar is in your local bank account, you might be able to buy some Pyongyang coal."

or alternatively

"Isn't this a bit too obvious? The climate in Pyongyang is entirely determined by the weather in Trump Tower."

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