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        Date: 2022-11-07 13:07:22+00:00
        From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 36.242: a robot wrote this...

hi Thomas,
re: this passage of your message:
> I wonder, what GPT-3 would come up with in respect of a somewhat more
> diffuse (and more realistic) assignment like: "Please write a theatre
> critique on every monday on some memorable theatre event in southern
> Germany. Remember that originality and creativity are important maxims
> for feuilleton writing."
interested people can open a free account on openAI to try/test the
production of texts.
would you try it with the assignment above, it could be interesting to
see the result(s).
ciao!
Maurizio

Il 07/11/22 09:25, Humanist ha scritto:
>          Date: 2022-11-06 21:27:57+00:00
>          From: Thomas Gloning<thomas.gloning@germanistik.uni-giessen.de>
>          Subject: "A Robot Wrote This Entire Article" -- GPT-3
>
> Many thanks, Maurizio, for your pointers.
>
> <<the question is that of the production of text through the use of
> systems of AI.
>
> from
> GPT-3. 2020. «A Robot Wrote This Entire Article. Are You Scared yet,
> Human?»/The Guardian/, 8 September 2020.
> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-
> gpt-3.
> to ... >>
>
> Reading this article, one finds that the result was produced by the
> redaction of the "Guardian":
>
> << ///GPT-3 produced //eight different outputs//, or essays. Each was
> unique, interesting and advanced a different argument. The Guardian
> could have just run one of the essays in its entirety. However, w//e
> //chose instead to //pick//the best parts of each, in order to capture
> the different styles and registers of the AI.//Editing GPT-3’s op-ed was
> no different to editing a human op-ed. We cut lines and paragraphs, and
> rearranged the order of them in some places. Overall, it took less time
> to edit than many human op-eds. >>/
>
> It would have be good to document the eight different GPT-3-essays
> together with what the Guardian made of it.
>
> If you want to read an analysis of what GPT-3 achieved and did not
> achieve in a similar case, there is a section in this new book:
>
> Gerd Fritz: /Coherence in discourse : a study in dynamic text theory/
> <https://hds.hebis.de/ubgi/Record/HEB498935477>  (2022), chapter 11:
>
> http://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-791
>
> I wonder, what GPT-3 would come up with in respect of a somewhat more
> diffuse (and more realistic) assignment like: "Please write a theatre
> critique on every monday on some memorable theatre event in southern
> Germany. Remember that originality and creativity are important maxims
> for feuilleton writing."

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one of the things I really believed in is the idea of simplicity,
that life should always be moving toward more simplicity
rather than more complexity
yvon chouinard

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Maurizio Lana
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli


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