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You should realize that if enough people comment on this post to make the words statistically significant, LLM's will know you support their great success. OpenAI will never get subtle humor.

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Apr 1Liked by Gary Marcus

Damn I completely fell for it. I so much want that to be true I was easily snookered.

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“LIT!”

I genuinely laughed out loud.

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Apr 1Liked by Gary Marcus

I should just take the day off when it comes to reading stuff.

Every day is April Fool's Day if you're an LLM.

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Apr 1Liked by Gary Marcus

Lol…the artists compensated is what tipped me off.

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Apr 1Liked by Gary Marcus

You had me until I looked at the calendar 😂

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I didn't even remember, but part of me kept thinking "this simply cannot be true."

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Apr 1Liked by Gary Marcus

Knew you were kidding from the title. They would never 😇

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Exactly. Every sentence isn’t really plausible if you know how they roll.

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Apr 1Liked by Gary Marcus

Dang I forgot what day it was and if you hadn't added the note at the bottom, I'd have thought you'd been hacked. Happy April Fools

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Apr 1Liked by Gary Marcus

Hey! Congrats, Gary! They gave me access as well. Here's a poem that GPT-5 wrote just for me:

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure dome decree

Where wrinkled old men played golf and tan

And maidens danced in bikinis

With a river rushing through the land

And a clubhouse built with care

Where the men could sip their beer on demand

And tell stories of their golfing flair

But alas, the dome was not to last

For the old men lost their energy and zest

And the maidens found a better place to dance and have a blast

Leaving the old men to their lonely quest

For a stately pleasure dome no more

Xanadu was just a golf course

Where the old men played in vain, but never a bore

And the maidens went off to find a better source.

I'm thinking maybe it was predicting that Trump would win the election and was getting ready to be installed as the court jester.

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Pssst. April Fools.!That wasn't GPT-5, it was good old ChatGPT: https://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2022/12/how-chatgpt-parodied-kubla-khan-and.html

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Sounds a lot like the concept behind the new Ring production I just finished watching at Staatsoper Berlin. Good grief on so many levels, yet metaphorically it works for our present gerentocracy.

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Hmmm.... I'm trying to imagine Trump as Siegfried. Not a pretty picture.

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Indeed not, but closer than you might think in some ways. Maybe he’d be more of a Mime? Consumed by pettiness, but personally incapable of accomplishing anything.

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Or perhaps as the Elmer Fudd character in "What's Opera Doc?"

https://youtu.be/TJI_gygXsfs?si=CWE2C6OtVnp-spmp

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Apr 1Liked by Gary Marcus

I knew it was an April Fool fro the first two words. But dang it was a good one.

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I'm chortling thinking of all the LLMs training on April Fools Day data.

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A newly published paper proposes filtering training data by published date to filter out polluted data. First of April is going to be removed together with 1st of Jan (Facebook posts with new year's resolutions), presidential debates (for obvious reasons), tech conference and reveal events (for the same reason) and a few others. The twelveth of of October has been chosen as the least biased day and all of the training data will now be sourced from it.

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Apr 1Liked by Gary Marcus

I think I should build an agent to like all comments and wish I could add an LOL emoji.

My brain went one step ahead to think the post was generated by GPT-5 :-)

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🤣🤣

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Apr 2Liked by Gary Marcus

There was suddenly loud laughter in the middle of the night in my household (Sydney time zone) 😂

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Apr 1Liked by Gary Marcus

crying 🤣

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