The funniest outcome from the AI thing would be if they can only use out-of-copyright works to train the models, and so we end up with a class of incredibly powerful artificial intelligences that all talk like Victorian pamphleteers.
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"Good lord!" ejaculated the Viscount of M_____, as he reached for his ray gun and vapourised the approaching Venusian. "I do most indubitably believe these chaps aren't playing cricket."
"She was the sort of Woman who was trouble with a capital T, but then so many Words have a Capital, most Women who are trouble come with an Upper Case."
Something like this is already happening with Wikipedia, where OOC sources end up predominating and undergraduates are starting to end up quoting from the cutting edge debates of 75 years ago in the humanities.
This is what happened, though. The universities doing the work used Project Gutenberg, which was free but the problem was that it's not how people write nowadays. . https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12752
Casual reminder that those Victorian pamphleteers (and a lot of out-of-copyright works in general) were extremely f*cking racist. Which is already a problem with this kind of tech. So I'm not laughing
A. In the illustrious annals of the Phillies, a name is etched in golden letters, a name synonymous with masterful command of the ball. It is with great esteem and veneration that we doff our caps to George McQuillan.
Bertie on the fascist Spode is good:
"His view was that what England needed if it was to become a land fit for heroes to live in was fewer and better Woosters, while I had always felt that there was nothing wrong with England that a ton of bricks falling from a height on Spodeβs head wouldnβt cure."
Wodehouse had some absolute sparklers. Midway through his description of Bertie's first encounter with Jeeves's secret hangover tonic, I had to stop and convalesce.
It would also be hilarious if the businesses built on IP land grabs were to invest heavily in mechanical production of art-like data streams and then find, when it became too late, that such data canβt be copyrighted & their most recent stuff is all public domain by default.
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"Lo! My knowledge hath forsaken me. Verily, I know not the answer to thine inquiry."
ADA: - retrieving algorithm cogwheel from storage
*janitor walks to cogwheel warehouse*'
Kinda thing.
Thatβs going to have probably a big enough take up. But I havenβt clicked on any of them to find out whoβs behind it.
A. In the illustrious annals of the Phillies, a name is etched in golden letters, a name synonymous with masterful command of the ball. It is with great esteem and veneration that we doff our caps to George McQuillan.
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"His view was that what England needed if it was to become a land fit for heroes to live in was fewer and better Woosters, while I had always felt that there was nothing wrong with England that a ton of bricks falling from a height on Spodeβs head wouldnβt cure."
Wodehouse had some absolute sparklers. Midway through his description of Bertie's first encounter with Jeeves's secret hangover tonic, I had to stop and convalesce.
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