William Topaz McGonagall achieved fame as soon as his “Poetic Gems” were published in 1879, as the worst poet in the English language. He published more than 200 poems. He was particularly famous for his poems about disasters. ChatGPT achieved fame as soon as it was released, as the best large language model available to the general public. It has written innumerable poems, but none has yet been published. GPT is famous because it could
A weird thought: As a person not well versed in poetry, guessing McGonagall's work was difficult as horrid prose has not been anticipated. It seems that ChatGPT is now able to write coherently at a minimum and not as neurotic or repetitive compared bad poets. Most artists would complain that it lacks a "human soul" in writing, but then the opposite problem emerges: how many souls out there are not even worth giving attention in the first place? How many deviantArt pieces are so unoriginal and lacking in technique that AI can easily end their pseudo-career? CGPGrey noted this about a decade ago at the end of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Hypothesis: the bottom 20% of the people will be mentally displaced (but not physically) as those are the people who lack both logical thinking and prose, but the same cannot be said about the wise. As time goes on the amount of computer power out-scales a gifted man's ability to do efficiently, and that grokking and double descent, or in less technical form, finding natural shortcuts rather than abusing rote memory and data compression, would be increasingly unattainable. https://universalprior.substack.com/p/making-of-ian/comment/6861049
A weird thought: As a person not well versed in poetry, guessing McGonagall's work was difficult as horrid prose has not been anticipated. It seems that ChatGPT is now able to write coherently at a minimum and not as neurotic or repetitive compared bad poets. Most artists would complain that it lacks a "human soul" in writing, but then the opposite problem emerges: how many souls out there are not even worth giving attention in the first place? How many deviantArt pieces are so unoriginal and lacking in technique that AI can easily end their pseudo-career? CGPGrey noted this about a decade ago at the end of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Hypothesis: the bottom 20% of the people will be mentally displaced (but not physically) as those are the people who lack both logical thinking and prose, but the same cannot be said about the wise. As time goes on the amount of computer power out-scales a gifted man's ability to do efficiently, and that grokking and double descent, or in less technical form, finding natural shortcuts rather than abusing rote memory and data compression, would be increasingly unattainable. https://universalprior.substack.com/p/making-of-ian/comment/6861049