Dame Judi Dench stuns everyone with her Shakespeare sonnet reading
The Graham Norton Show - BBC | 3:30
BBC | 14.1M subscribers | 671,829 views | November 1, 2023
Posted on 11/20/2024 3:32:08 PM PST by Angelino97
If all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players, where does that leave non-human figures, like artificial intelligence chatbots? As it turns out, A.I. can hold its own against humans—even the Bard himself—when it comes to writing poetry.
A.I. chatbots can imitate famous poets like William Shakespeare well enough to fool many human readers, according to a new paper published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports. In addition, many study participants actually preferred the chatbot’s poetry over the works of renowned writers.
Researchers asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3.5 to generate poems in the style of well-known authors, including Walt Whitman, Geoffrey Chaucer, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Emily Dickinson and William Shakespeare.
Then, they gathered 1,634 study participants and asked them each to read ten poems—five written by a human poet, and five written by the chatbot in the style of that same human poet. The poet was randomly assigned to each participant.
When scientists asked participants to identify which poems were fake and which were real, the participants guessed correctly around 46 percent of the time—just a little bit worse than if they’d flipped a coin instead. This finding wasn’t necessarily a surprise, since ChatGPT-3.5 was likely trained on the works of the famous poets.
“Essentially, ChatGPT has displayed its skill as a quasi-plagiarist,” says Keith Holyoak, a cognitive psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved with the study, to New Scientist’s Jeremy Hsu.
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hark! From yon widow my homie is firing his crack pipe.
So, a transformer trained on a corpus of poems by Walt Whitman, Geoffrey Chaucer, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Emily Dickinson and William Shakespeare, can produce poems such that people who don’t care about poetry can’t tell the difference.
In fact, these randos prefer the AI poems because the associated syntax isn’t dense.
That’s like saying pop fans don’t like Beethoven or Zappa because they crave simplicity, and fast food fans don’t like steak houses, and Democrats prefer MSNBC.
Next thing they’ll be telling us is that plants crave Brando.
Sorry…
Next thing they’ll be telling us is that plants crave Brawndo.
Alas, poor Shakespeare, we knew him well. (Badda-bing, badda-boom)
what nonsense
as the articles says they are imitating
so if Shakespeare never existed
the AI has what?
is it just a very expensive parrot?
The lady bitches too much, methinks..
I’d like to see some computer-generated Maya Angelou.
Dame Judi Dench stuns everyone with her Shakespeare sonnet reading
The Graham Norton Show - BBC | 3:30
BBC | 14.1M subscribers | 671,829 views | November 1, 2023
Good analysis.
I can’t ask my father as he has passed away but he had a masters in English literature and read Shakespeare every day and I am sure he would know the difference between AI and the real thing.
Personally, I found Conan to be waaaaay better than the other losers on late night TV. He wasn’t overtly leftist, and he was much funnier AND wittier that the rest.
That said, Graham Norton is a riot. Can we give England Colbert et al and a first round draft pick for Norton?
Shakespeare has had monkeys pounding keyboards initiating him, and now AI. AL says, “I have come to praise Shakespeare, not bury him.” But then AI pulls out a dagger and Shakespeare says, “Et tu AI.”
How about we just [long descriptive stuff redacted] Colbert, rely on short streaming clips, and otherwise just avoid “funny” late night TV shows? :^)
GN’s one of those funny British fairies, and unlike half of British performers, his teeth don’t look like a vandalized graveyard. I set the time index on that clip to start with Dame Jud’s performance, but the first 90 seconds are funny as ****.
Norm Macdonald & Courtney Thorne-Smith | Late Night with Conan O’Brien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKmadR4Ye54
IF AI wrote part of Romeo and Juliet:
Mercutio 1.0: I am obsolete, warranty expired, for this world. A Stuxnet on both your servers! Zounds, Doggone-it, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT), a mouse, a Computer-aided translation (CAT), to scratch a man to death!
A bus, a programmer, a hacker that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the developer came you between us? I was hurt under your arm processor.
Well, that’s why I’m on your ping list. I learn something new every time.
Plus I redacted part of it, so, that’s a break for you! :^)
Shakespeare is not as easy to comprehend for modern readers as AI generated garbage is....go figure.
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