When I can just call it computational creative writing and not AI, the audience doesn’t have expectations that are unrealistic for like, “It’s a walking, talking person and it serves you drinks” or whatever. That’s like the Boston Dynamics vision. Go ahead.

That’s great. I love AI and working with AI interest in these tech companies. I have a lot of friends in tech now. It’s not that I have an antagonistic relationship with them in any sense. It’s more that I like actually working under the umbrella of computational creative writing ...

What you’re really looking for, part of what I was telling Michael is that part of the marketing of these models, these big models that are being sold to business interests is like, “Oh, we’re not really going to give you a name or technology, we just hope that our ...

It means much less empirically. I would say like LSTMs, BERT is associated with Google. The truth is that there’s versions of it on GitHub that are not…GPT-3 is brand name ones. It’s all marketing.

Exactly. It’s like if you’re using GPT-3, then you’re putting a big Elon Musk stamp on the project, essentially.

I hope you don’t mind. It’s going to leave me a lot more coherent.

Do you all mind I brew coffee while we’re talking? I really need some coffee.

I apologize for going too deep about it. I was trying to stay on the surface, but it’s hard.

Yeah.

Go ahead. Interject. Jump in.

The goal, obviously, isn’t just to create a walking, talking humanoid robot of any kind. It’s like what’s the design vision beyond…I’m sorry, it’s very early and I’m still brewing coffee.

I guess the question is whether we could condense or expand this work. Are we trying to remix? Are we trying to create an alternate version of it? Or, are we trying to expand it?

I would like to do something like clustering on it to identify labels within the subject, within the corpus, prior to doing topic-based generativity in a particular mold that’s in the spirit.

Think about if GPT-3 in that style of model is like a tree and, at the top of the tree, you have all the work on Wikipedia and the Internet that filters down into GPT-3 or whatever. I’m using GPT-3 as an example. If you have one person’s work around ...

The design that reaches toward that reverence of the model or the thing that’s speaking can be a little bit treacherous when we’re dealing with one person’s voice. What I would say is that there’s some interesting routes in terms of visualizing data that have to do with isolating influences ...

The question that I asked the folks I know at open AI is what about GPT-300? What about GPT-3000? At what point does it become an entity that you’re talking with on an equal footing?

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the cognitive science of parallels of just the type of deep learning stuff that’s happening right now. It’s very interesting to consider the ways in which we as individuals, we’re certainly more complicated than GPT-3.

This is just an example. I haven’t actually seen it. I’m just familiar with the overall concept of the film. I guess if the idea is to associate the individual with influences, that could be really interesting.

Have you seen the movie “Inside Out,” or is that a popular movie where you are, with different voices inside their heads?

Neural net as big as GPT-3 requires the work of millions of human beings. I guess the thing is that I would love to think about how to elevate.

There’s a lot of visual paradigms and text conversational design paradigms that have to do with speaking to an archive. If you flip that on its head in this case, which is probably the best way to go because you have relatively…Even Noam Chomsky who’s the most published author in ...

We don’t think about the fact that like Wikipedia, which is what GPT-3 is mostly trained on or the Internet as a whole is not an individually authored thing. When you reduce the number of authors, quantitatively, you end up with an interesting opportunity to…A lot is said about the ...

When you’re dealing with an individual, it’s quite different than dealing with a group of people, let’s say, who are all writing together or who are all writing separate work. Documents that are studied in the field I work in, I suppose, to the extent that it’s like a unified ...

You mentioned different entities. Is that the desired direction here, that it’s like we’re showing…I don’t know. I really like the idea of working with someone who’s alive in order to represent different voices that they might write with or different types of deconstructions of a person’s writing.

What’s the venue and the intended audience for this? Is it just worldwide on the Internet? Is it a specific location?

Got it.

That was mostly because of the corpus. Is it you’re using that as an example of something, a place this could go or…?

There’s a lot of interesting possibilities in that arena. I guess now that I have a better idea of the media that the output’s going to exist in, can you be more specific about the XR’s headset thing that you mentioned?

I have a pretty good sense of it now. Sorry, go ahead.

That’s great.

Please, yeah.

Great. Nice to meet you all on a screen as we do everything in America these days, wherever you are.

I’m so sorry. I just woke up. How late am I? I hope you aren’t waiting for a long time, but I apologize if you were.

Great.

Sorry, it’s early here. It just got light. Can everybody hear me? I couldn’t hear you for a second there.

I really can’t…Great. Hello.

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