Philosopher Blake Myers (recall this earlier item) writes:
I was recently testing the new version of GPT-3 that just came out…mainly looking at its ability to capture well-known people’s views, as well as its ability to formulate such views in different styles. So, just for fun, I asked it to write a poem about your views on Derrida, Trump, and Nietzsche. The input I gave is the part at the top , and GPT-3’s output follows. Kind of funny/entertaining, and perhaps not too far off.
Here it is:
Input:
Write a poem about Brian Leiter. Include his views
about Derrida in the first stanza, his views about
Trump in the second stanza, and his views about
Nietzsche in the third stanza.
Output:
Brian Leiter stands out from the rest,
His views on Derrida, an impressive test.
He finds Derrida's ideas to be overblown,
His writings too often metaphorical and unknown.
When it comes to Trump, Brian is quite clear,
His policies, he finds, are quite severe.
He finds Trump to be a dangerous man,
Whose policies are selfish and can't stand.
In Nietzsche, Brian finds much to admire,
His writings full of wit, insight and fire.
He finds Nietzsche's views to be thought-
provoking,
Challenging what we believe and keep us
searching.
Dr. Myers added: "I wanted to give it a bit of a challenge, so I asked it to write a Shakespearean sonnet about Marx's views on capitalism. I was surprised that it did quite well with keeping on topic, while also getting the 14-line structure with 10 syllables each and the correct rhyme scheme. It doesn't always do this well. But it's often quite good at it." Here it is:
Input:
Write a Shakespearean sonnet about Marx's view
of capitalism.
Output:
The worker's plight, the wealth of those on high,
The ceaseless work, the want of basic needs,
The greed of those who, unencumbered, buy,
The endless struggle of the worker's seeds.
This Marx foresaw, a world of stark divide,
Where capital and labor met in strife,
Where profit, not compassion, ruled the tide,
And working classes had no hope of life.
And yet, he saw the way to break this yoke,
To grant the worker freedoms long denied,
And end the rule of those who made them broke,
And grant the working class the means to thrive.
His words, though old, still echo through the age,
The worker's plight, an ever-present cage.
