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Talk to Transformer!

messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,294 ✭✭✭✭✭

This website (talktotransformer.com) uses a neural network to generate some text based on a prompt. I decided to see what it had to say about coin collecting, while it's not up to the standards of automatically generated papers that get accepted by academic journals, it sounds like I really don't want to go to a show in Moscow. :D

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  • CoinJunkieCoinJunkie Posts: 8,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The final paragraph is priceless!

  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,533 ✭✭✭✭✭

    OMG that last paragraph!

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  • philographerphilographer Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Should I buy a few expensive numismatic coins or many inexpensive coins?

    "Make sure you are buying quality coins, not cheap coins that are cheap for a reason. Coins should be in great condition. I know, you just got them for sale on eBay and it looks fine, but just because it's a nice coin doesn't mean it's quality. You need a good coin for any collector. How much you pay for a good coin can vary from one collector to another. In my opinion, buying coins in the silver and gold and other newer coinage is much more reasonable than the coins dating back to 1900. When I was a young collector, I paid over $1,000 per coin for a good day's investment. In that price..."

    He who knows he has enough is rich.

  • SmEagle1795SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭✭✭

    :D That's one of the better examples I've seen. Definitely a case of "garbage in, garbage out" when it comes to training AI models.

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  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow.

    At one time I was a fairly competent Russian linguist and I have spent some time in Russia and Estonia, which was one of the former Soviet Republics. With that in mind, I have two competing thoughts -
    1. I wonder about the accuracy of the translation rendered by "Talk to Transformer".
    2. I can see how the translation could be entirely accurate.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Amazing.... I have not heard of this before.... are there services that generate an entire paper? Such as for a college project? Seems it would base the information off existing papers, and the risk of plagiarism would be quite real. Cheers, RickO

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