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A use for that AI text-generating thing

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 4:40 am
by alice
Has anyone tried something like "Write a full description of a conlang based on Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, and Basque, complete with syntax trees and sample texts"?

Re: A use for that AI text-generating thing

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:41 am
by Kuchigakatai
I saw someone ask ChatGPT to make an IAL, and it simply started describing Esperanto in Esperanto...

Re: A use for that AI text-generating thing

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 1:31 pm
by masako
alice wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 4:40 am Has anyone tried something like "Write a full description of a conlang based on Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, and Basque, complete with syntax trees and sample texts"?
Yes. I asked it to make one based on Nahuatl with a base vocabulary of 2K words. After about 40 unique words it just kept repeating "tlacuahlli"...and the complexity of the grammar was something that anyone on this board could do in a speed-lang challenge.

Re: A use for that AI text-generating thing

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 2:00 pm
by alice
Hm! I suppose that there aren't enough conlang descriptions for it to train itself usefully on, and it ends up recycling its own output.

Re: A use for that AI text-generating thing

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 2:32 pm
by Raphael
masako wrote: Sun Jan 08, 2023 1:31 pm...and the complexity of the grammar was something that anyone on this board could do in a speed-lang challenge.
Still amazing that it could create a grammar at all.

Re: A use for that AI text-generating thing

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:52 pm
by Richard W
Be warned that it is slightly worse than the average Arts student at Astrophysics - it's been assessed for a Cool Worlds video on Youtube!