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It’s stochastic.
That’s right. We just take 10 years to prepare for 7x7.
A 10 years’ conversations, like a movie that’s exactly 10 years long.
I’m telling what I heard from Yngve last time.
I’m sure that XRSpace will be happy just make this a permanent exhibit because they will get more users. Of course, few people in the world currently owns a XRSpace headset, so it will a really privileged exhibition. We’re looking to present the primary exhibition as something that could be ...
I was just telling my Michael that if you don’t want to bring in GPT-3 or BERT, that’s entirely fine. We can use even our preparatory conversations as a small corpus and still generate quite coherent stuff.
Still, the timestamps and all generated is quite convincingly IRC. That’s the kind of self-sufficient model with five years old technology now that we can reliably get was just to stay at corpus.
You see occasionally my handle at the other co-workers, but the focus is on Ken and also Mac Ken, which is the nickname Ken used when he used a Mac. It doesn’t have any knowledge of Wikipedia or anything like that because it’s a small corpus and it only has ...
I took all the IRC logs and then focused the character level RNN only on the parts of Ken’s speaking and the surroundings, the contexts that prompt Ken Pier to speak.
On the second link is an Easter egg that I put in the product. If you keep refreshing that endpoint, you will see an endless stream of IRC conversations modeled loosely after the actual IRC conversations we had with Ken.
Just before you joined, Ross, I was just sharing my first project with the character level RNN, and that was like five years ago, to mourn my coworker in my previous job, Socialtext. All I did is to put all the IRC logs of us working together.
Of course. I refer to that movie all the time when I explain the humor over rumor strategy of disinformation fighting.
I can hear you just fine.
Yes. Hello. Greetings. Good local time.
That’s why lottery poetry, to me, makes more sense than, say, a five-page essay because for an essay to work, it has to be self-consistent. If it’s a short poetry, the consistency is in the readers’ minds.
That’s right. It doesn’t have to be GPT-3. That was just this saying that if you want photo realism, something that is passable, like passing Turing test stuff, GPT-3 is where it’s at. For the chat log that you’re looking at right now, that’s just elementary software that anybody can ...
Ken Pier was the person who passed away. It’s my way to remember him.
In Microsoft Word, you can open a pinball and so on. There’s games embedded in those productivity software that you can trigger if you know the right commands.
It’s off menu. That’s what an Easter egg means. It’s also harmless because it doesn’t do anything bad to the product. It’s just unadvertised. One of the more interesting Easter eggs is that it used to be in the 1997 version of Microsoft Excel, you can actually open a flight ...
An Easter egg in the software is a function in the software that’s not part of its specification. When our customer bought the software for Socialtext, they buy something like Slack. It’s a productivity software. Nowhere in its menu or nowhere in its product description says you can actually generate ...
The atmosphere of working.
That’s right. There’s no trade secret to being divulged.
It’s machine generated. It’s our avatars talking to one another.
That’s right. That’s not our actual conversation, but it could have been.
Well, if you keep refreshing. That’s actually my first deep learning project using just character level RNN when it came out.
It’s almost like we’re making the product over again. It’s in all the Socialtext instances all around the world…. This is the first time I said this on record.
The real conversation that we had when making the product together in the memory of Ken Pier when he passed away, my way to mourn him was just to get all the IRC chat logs and generate this virtual conversation. If you refresh sufficient number of times, you’ll probably see ...
Yeah. I actually did that in my previous job, by the way. Like literally. There’s an Easter egg that I put in my previous job, and in all the customers that installed that piece of software, there’s a special point not advertised anywhere which it recreates. If you refresh, it ...
Yeah.
OK.
We get to practice our lip reading, how I try to read Michael’s lips. [laughs]
That’s right. It’s the same thing. It’s the same thing.
Exactly.
That’s right. There’s a content and there’s the style. It’s technically called a style transfer.
I think he’ll join us through the Skype.
Yeah. I think it’s a good idea.
I don’t know what you do with it all day though, but it’s there for you to look at. [laughs]
Now you can import it to XR and look at it all day.
Yeah, that’s right.
If you’re interested in the 3D scans that are Animal Crossing resolution, here’s the open data part, right? [laughs]
Yeah. I’m trying to find a good resolution version, but there is none. I’ll just paste a random photo here. Basically, the Animal Crossing community in Taiwan gets a free license from the National Palace Museum to basically carry those open data from the Palace Museum.
That’s right. It’s even in the Nintendo game, the “Animal Crossing.” They offer an Animal Crossing version of that.
That’s right.
Oh, yeah, the Meat-shaped Stone. We have a pretty good 3D scan of that.
Mm-hmm.
