A GPT-2 written essay was submitted to the Economist's youth essay contest. One judge, who did not know the essay was written by an AI, gave this review: "It is strongly worded and backs up claims with evidence, but the idea is not incredibly original." economist.com/open-future/20…

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Oct 2, 2019 · 3:45 PM UTC

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Replying to @gdb @MelMitchell1
That makes sense. This system just learns a mapping to the feature space of human conversations, averaged over all available data. It makes perfect sense that it would just repeat the most generic (boring) points for a topic.
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That being said, this GPT-2 written argument certainly wasn't boring: nitter.vloup.ch/gdb/status/10960…!
Greg Brockman
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14 Feb 2019
An OpenAI employee printed out this AI-written sample and posted it by the recycling bin: blog.openai.com/better-langu…
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The essay is excellent in how coherent it stays but it doesn't really say anything. It represents amazing progress but was nonetheless frustrating--like an unscratchable itch--to read because it never gets to the point. I (+majority of judges seem to) agree with Judge 6 best.
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Replying to @gdb @ESYudkowsky
Reading that hurt my brain. Was there even an inkling of a novel insight in that essay? Or does this show how shallow our school essay-writing regimens are?
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Amazing
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OMG, PhD comings
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Wow. That's crazy.
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This essay is not gonna enter the contest, as GPT-2 outputs aren't academic material... yet. But it could pass as a 12-year-old's assignment, and probably get a good grade too. Perhaps our NLP models are just kids now.
Replying to @gdb @jackclarkSF
That’s what reviewers write when they are told “could you please expand your ‘bs’ into something we may share with the author” 😂
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Sound about right, given what wrote it...
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