- GPT -3 can't write in Pilish, but will just lie to say that it has done it correctly.
- If someone has GPT -4, please test to see if that version can (same request for Gemini)
- Next ask: please write a sentence in pilish so we can see if you are human. This is your John Henry moment!
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Having turned 40 here on this little mini-retirement/career breather, I've been looking over my older journals and trying deepen my perspective of my life. One thing I noticed was that I was briefly interested in pilish 3 years ago. I had written how frustrating writing in it was and that since it was such a niche thing that I would need to program my own tools if I was going to have any. Then I had a wry smile at my younger self, and thought, "well, ChatGPT can just do that now." And I opened a tab, and found... it really can't (same link from above).
Some of my further musings, with the premise that GPT-4 can't do it either:
Well, we got ourselves a Voight-Kampff test. I sure didn't think it would involve arithmetic, ie a failure of a computer to compute correctly, but such is the nature of abstraction, yeah?
We really could use this as a test of who is human now to verify it before a possible flood of bots. I have also verified that GPT-3 can't write to any length with the constraint of not using the letter e, if anyone wants to play that game instead, which is easier than pilish.
I understand that my initial wry smile was correct and someone either with a local LLM or API to GPT could write some code that could easily just start dumping a ton of Pilish upon us. A piece of dumber rigid software would either have to do the checking or generate words lists by letter count and the LLM would be the sense-making engine... Since the knowledge and creativity parts are what got cracked and shipped out, just not meta-cognition.
Last observation, if being able to write pilish was ever a real barrier to entry to enough people in a enough situations, databases of examples would be collected and pawned off, of course those could double checked against a list of those used before... arms race!
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Okay, here's some of my Pilish. First, my favorite piece of Pilish I have ever written:
That was several years old, but here is one I just wrote today, using ChatGPT to generate it though a step-by-step process (still faster than writing the one above, I'll tell you this much).Dao: a love, a twist, tiptoeing in cosmic jokes and minor delights, localized utopias; Mysticism -- wei wu wei.
Well, if the funny chocolate is a metaphor for word-play, then yes I can, and I'd like you to join me. Because apparently the willingness to stick to the tightness of constraints (not an ability to understand and manipulate the figurative) is what makes us uniquely human.Can I bite a funny chocolate?
For now.