I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good
EducationTom Scott•1.2M Views
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Editorial Analysis
I didn't expect this to work so well. • Includes text generated by OpenAI's GPT-3 at my request: https://openai.com • Art by Chris Quay: https://www.chrisquay.com/ • Got an idea for a video? https://www.tomscott.com/contact/Filmed safely: https://www.tomscott.com/safe/OpenAI had no control or sign-off on this video, although I agreed to abide by their ethical guidelines and social media policy.Thanks to Eddie the corgi's owner for introducing me to the folks at OpenAI: https://instagram.com/eddie_corgArticles referenced:https://doi.org/10.18653/v1%2F2020.findings-emnlp.301https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2020/10/28/medical-chatbot-openai-gpt3-patient-kill-themselves/https://thenextweb.com/neural/2021/01/19/gpt-3-is-the-worlds-most-powerful-bigotry-generator-what-should-we-do-about-it/New River in Bowes Park image by Nick Cooper on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_River_Bowes_Park.jpgLicensed under CC-by 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.enI'm at https://tomscott.com
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