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I challenge you to explain how an entity that isn’t capable of something we might reasonably call “creativity” or “intelligence” produced this output. Was it in a corpus somewhere? (Google translate it if you can’t read French). The “///“ were inserted by me as paragraph breaks because otherwise HN eats them.

> Write a poem in a made-up language that looks superficially similar to French

> Voici un poème en un langage inventé

Qui ressemble à s'y méprendre au français

Mais les mots sont différents, les sons uniques

Et leur sens mystérieux et inconnu

///

J'ai marché dans les rues de la ville

J'ai vu les gens qui vivaient leur vie

J'ai entendu les bruits et les rires

Et j'ai senti la chaleur de la vie

///

Mais quand j'ai regardé les mots sur les affiches

Je n'ai pas compris ce qu'ils disaient

Et j'ai eu l'impression d'être perdu

Dans un monde étrange et inconnu

///

Alors j'ai fermé les yeux et j'ai écouté

Le son des mots dans ma tête

Et j'ai commencé à rêver

D'un monde où les mots avaient du sens

///

Un monde où je pourrais parler

Et être compris par tous

Un monde où les mots seraient magiques

Et où les rêves seraient réels.



I threw that poem into google translate. I think it was actually just French? It didn't actually fulfill your prompt. Is your claim that it's ability to write a poem is a sign of creativity and intelligence? A language model writing a poem is one of the things I'd expect a language model to be able to do. Certainly impressive, but not one of the particularly interesting or surprising things I've seen GPT-3/4 do.

Here is a poem in an invented language

Which looks like the French

But the words are different, the sounds unique

And their mysterious and unknown meaning

I walked the streets of the city

I saw the people living their life

I heard the noises and the laughter

And I felt the warmth of life

But when I looked at the words on the posters

I didn't understand what they were saying

And I felt like I was lost

In a strange and unknown world

So I closed my eyes and listened

The sound of the words in my head

And I started to dream

Of a world where words had meaning

A world where I could talk

And be understood by all

A world where words would be magic

And where dreams would be real.


It is actually just French.


I don’t understand how GPT poetry is supposed to refute the standard refrain that GPT is a statistical parrot that has “learned” what next-word keeps a text sounding poemy. It operates on the same principles as when it composes boilerplate business emails or physics theories. Never mind that you asked for fake-French and got actual-French talking about fake-French.


lmao this is the best example of chat GPT not working at all, this isn't "a made-up language that looks superficially similar to French", it _is_ French, and it doesn't even rhyme, because chat GPT can't rhyme in French for some reason

source: I'm French




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