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ml text generation demo

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96points
25comments
#671of 3,028 in 2020
Top 23%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

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3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.

Idea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Fun and funny; the Goop-versus-GPT-2 quiz is entertaining

    From 2 comments
    • I can't believe how bad I am with this! It reminds me of the book "The Most Human Human." Every year, at the competition for the Loebner Prize (a five minute chatbot Turing…
      elil17 on HN
    • Looking at the site, and the authors comment, this looks like a quick weekend project made for fun. I wouldn’t spend too much time reading into it or critiquing it’s honesty. It…
      avianlyric on HN
  • Good idea for crowdsourced labeling of data

    From 1 comment
    • Brilliant work. The way you packaged it can be used to label data to improve ML models. I am thinking of such a link being sent out to numerous people to crowdsource labeling.…
      r0b05 on HN

Objections

  • Quotes look cherry-picked, so the results are biased

    From 2 comments
    • After trying a few to get a handle on things, I decided to make guesses based solely on if the sentence makes coherent sense. I judged 14 quotes before getting a repeat, having…
      c3534l on HN
    • Heavy curation is unfortunately rampant in the genre of "wow check out this AI"
      woah on HN
  • Server was overloaded by HN traffic

    From 1 comment
    • Hey everyone—looks like HN traffic squeezed my server a little more than I expected. It's upgrading now, but might not be available for about 5 minutes. Sorry about that, and…
      calebkaiser on HN

Requests

  • Add more quotes to the quiz

    From 1 comment
    • Hey HN -- I had a slow weekend and built this thing. It's a little game that displays a sentence, and you decide if you think an ML model generated it, or if it's an actual quote…
      calebkaiser on HN
  • Publish a blog post on how it was built

    From 2 comments
    • I would be interested in learning how you built it, do you have a blog entry about fine tuning the gpt-2 with the scraped text ? Or can you recommend a blog post that does…
      bulldog13 on HN
    • Yes, very much so. Good luck and thank you!
      bulldog13 on HN

Questions

  • How was the GPT-2 model fine-tuned?

    From 2 comments
    • I would be interested in learning how you built it, do you have a blog entry about fine tuning the gpt-2 with the scraped text ? Or can you recommend a blog post that does…
      bulldog13 on HN
    • See the notes and Colab notebook in the source project repo: https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple I am working on a new text generation package which should be even more…
      minimaxir on HN
  • Does it use common sense?

    From 1 comment
    • Brilliant work. The way you packaged it can be used to label data to improve ML models. I am thinking of such a link being sent out to numerous people to crowdsource labeling.…
      r0b05 on HN

Alternatives named

  • SNARXiv (snarxiv.org), a parody of arXiv

    From 1 comment
  • MAD Magazine catalog parodies

    From 1 comment
    • This reminds me of the time that MAD Magazine did parodies of entries in the old Spencer Gifts catalogs.
      DrScump on HN

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