{"id":19629,"date":"2022-12-29T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=19629"},"modified":"2022-12-29T11:43:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:43:47","slug":"ai-text-completion-from-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2022\/12\/29\/ai-text-completion-from-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"AI text completion from 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>In 2019, a friend pointed to a web interface for talking to an AI.<\/p>\r\n<p>At the time, I tried interacting with it a bit; here are four of those interactions. That system wasn\u2019t nearly as sophisticated as ChatGPT, but it was fun.<\/p>\r\n<p>The first two responses end abruptly, because the system is set to stop after a specified number of words.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p><b>My prompt<\/b>: Her name was Magill, and she called herself<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><b>Output<\/b>:<\/p>\r\n<p>Her name was Magill, and she called herself a blacksmith, as all blacksmiths are called.<\/p>\r\n<p>Her work was for the military and the royalists, and so she had to be very careful.<\/p>\r\n<p>And one day, she received a letter from the kingdom's lord, Duke Espeon, requesting a large amount of iron.<\/p>\r\n<p>She had to use her hands, but Magill was a good blacksmith. And so she had to make a sword for the Duchy Duke.<\/p>\r\n<p>\"O-oh\u2026\u2026,\"<\/p>\r\n<p>The sword that Magill made was quite large.<\/p>\r\n<p>\"Yes.\"<\/p>\r\n<p>When Magill returned her attention to her work, Celia was sitting there.<\/p>\r\n<p>\"That was the only thing my sister's ever said to you, Celia. I see.\"<\/p>\r\n<p>\"I see\u2026\"<\/p>\r\n<p>Celia was feeling the same way as Magill who had been receiving a letter from her sister.<\/p>\r\n<p>In order for the two of them not to leave anything out, the fact that one's sister was a blacksmith and the other was<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p><b>My prompt<\/b>: Yo quiero un libro.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><b>Output<\/b>:<\/p>\r\n<p>Yo quiero un libro. Una oportunidad para el muy bueno. \u00a1Un d\u00eda cuando mi libro se mejor es posible!<\/p>\r\n<p>I like the colors. I like the way the text is rendered. And when they say \"no quiero un libro\" that's why I'm not interested because it makes me not like what I see. I've always had a soft spot for the library's font choice. When I look at books that have a monospace font it always feels awkward to me because I know that the actual reading experience of the text is a little less comfortable with such characters. But I digress.<\/p>\r\n<p>The library in Santiago is named for a famous poet, Santiago de Compostela. The library also uses his work as a metaphor for how we should live. I read a little bit about the poet while visiting Compostela's former house. It's quite large, so this was the perfect spot for me to read the poem in its entirety. I found the story about the house, as you'd expect<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p><b>My prompt<\/b>: Cat pictures, please.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><b>Output<\/b>:<\/p>\r\n<p>It's only fair to share... Google+ Linkedin Reddit<\/p>\r\n<p>Posted in Uncategorized | 22 Comments \u00bb<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p><b>My prompt<\/b> [at least, I think this was me; but I might have seen someone else post this, not sure]: In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"no-indent\"><b>Output<\/b>:<\/p>\r\n<p>In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a cozy home, made all of sticks and stones, with a damp floor and a buzzard's egg for a pillow: and that is the way they lived, down in the bottom of the hole.<\/p>\r\n<p> 'That is all very well,' thought Bilbo, 'but I would be even more comfortable up here.<\/p>\r\n<p>You are almost as tall as I am. '<\/p>\r\n<p>So up he climbed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>A version of that system is still available online; the old URL now redirects to a demo of something called <a href=\"https:\/\/app.inferkit.com\/demo\">InferKit<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>I can\u2019t tell whether InferKit is related to GPT. You\u2019ll probably get more sophisticated responses from ChatGPT, but InferKit can be fun too.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19631,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19629\/revisions\/19631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}