GPT-4 (a list of 'my' spontaneous experiments and vague conclusions)
Expanding over time in the entropic effusion of opinions both analog and augmented.
A list of my cursory, spontaneous, non-scientific, vaguely-curious GPT-4 Experiments.
preliminary tl;dr
GPT-4 possesses intense power capabilities for normative communication, but even with finetuning, it may be throttled by ethics, incapable of ‘real’ creativity.
gpt-4 seems exponentially more proficient and capable at weaving and remembering narrative context. Yet based on the prompts i've tried, it seems confined to a region of language that is a bit like an effusive propaganda pamphlet:
silicon valley meets timeshare valedictorian.
Prompts to ' write in the style of...[AUTHOR] " produced only marginal deviation. And as in its poetry writing GPT tends to follow a formulaic cathartic surge toward an upswell of optimism.
I've had my John Cayley moment: GPT-4 is so good, so proficient, it's like a junk food version of the mediterranean diet.
Tl;dr On Poetry
Replicating the mundane precision of greeting cards and pungent homilies, GPT-4 s a profoundly proficient poet who lacks any insight or edge, and is instead a depthless gland divorced from embodiment or texture.
In each case an entire poem was fed to GPT-4, and in every case it replicated a 4 or 5 line verse.
Idiom contorted to reflect a benign tapioca.