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2021 JunePoignardAzur

About the release of the open GPT-J-6B language model.

This does make me wonder, how long until we get a GPT that can drop pop-culture references smoothly enough to pass the Turing Test?

It's harder than other types of text generation, because part of the game of referring to memes is to do it in as roundabout a way as you can, using the kind of hidden inferences a neural network would probably struggle with.

But it might still be feasible soon. shudders

An AI drops pop-culture references smoothly enough to pass the Turing test.

Has this happened?

Yes 65 (53%)Not sure 28 (23%)No 29 (24%)

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