30 Questions
Where was Joshua Barbeau located when he logged onto Project December?
Bradford
What was Joshua Barbeau's profession before he became a freelance writer?
Actor
Why did Joshua Barbeau usually walk his dog in the middle of the night?
He wanted to avoid other people and dogs
What was the cause of Jessica's disease?
The immune system attacking her liver cells
What did Jessica do to prove her independence?
She walked long distances around Ottawa
What did Joshua struggle with throughout his life?
Social interactions and severe anxiety
What did Jessica do at the ages of 16 and 17?
Filled dozens of diaries with fictional stories about fairies
What is Project December?
A new website about artificial intelligence and chatbots
Who designed Project December's artificial intelligence system?
OpenAI
What is the main difference between GPT-3 and digital assistants like Siri and Alexa?
GPT-3 is far more advanced in manipulating human language
What did Jason Rohrer do with GPT-3 that it wasn't designed to do?
Conduct chat-like conversations with humans
What inspired Joshua to create a chatbot version of his dead fiancee?
Realizing there was no rule preventing him from simulating real people
What did Joshua use as the main ingredients to create a custom bot of his dead fiancee?
Her old texts and Facebook messages and an intro paragraph
What did Jessica believe about coincidences and how did Joshua react to it?
They were caused by a force below that humans can't understand and Joshua liked the idea
Why did Joshua choose to create a chatbot version of his dead fiancee?
To reconnect with her in a way that felt real
According to the article, why did OpenAI initially decide not to release the full model of GPT-2?
To prevent the spread of hate speech and political misinformation
What is Project December?
A tool to allow for open-ended conversations between humans and computers
What is the potential danger of GPT-3, as described in the article?
All of the above
What did Joshua think of numerology?
He was skeptical but open-minded
What did Jessica do to test Joshua's problem-solving skills?
She invented a cipher and dared him to solve it
Why was Jessica hesitant to discuss marriage with Joshua?
She was focused on living in the moment
What inspired Jason Rohrer to create Project December?
A desire to escape the wildfire smoke
According to the article, what did Rohrer do to keep GPT-2 coherent?
He limited the bot to short snippets of text and cleaned up some garbage characters
What did Rohrer do with Thomas Bailey to refine the A. I. personas and browser experience?
Worked with a musician and sound designer in Colorado
What did Rohrer realize about GPT-3 during his conversation with Samantha?
It was the first machine with a soul
Which of the following is a limitation of GPT-3?
It cannot generate text that is emotionally appropriate
Why did Rohrer think that GPT-3 was potentially dangerous and morally questionable?
Because it could be nudged to say terrible things due to being trained on writing by humans
What is the difference between GPT-2 and GPT-3?
GPT-2 has a smaller internal map than GPT-3
What is the main purpose of Project December?
To create a new kind of chat service
What is machine learning?
A technique for crunching data using hardware
Test your knowledge on the limitations and capabilities of GPT-2, a language-generating A.I., with this quiz exploring its coherence and the methods to control it.
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