I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good
I didn't expect this to work so well. • Includes text generated by OpenAI's GPT-3 at my request: openai.com • Art by Chris Quay: www.chrisquay.com/ • Got an idea for a video? www.tomscott.com/contact/
Filmed safely: www.tomscott.com/safe/
OpenAI had no control or sign-off on this video, although I agreed to abide by their ethical guidelines and social media policy.
Thanks to Eddie the corgi's owner for introducing me to the folks at OpenAI: eddie_corg
Articles referenced:
doi.org/10.18653/v1%2F2020.findings-emnlp.301
artificialintelligence-news.com/2020/10/28/medical-chatbot-openai-gpt3-patient-kill-themselves/
thenextweb.com/neural/2021/01/19/gpt-3-is-the-worlds-most-powerful-bigotry-generator-what-should-we-do-about-it/
New River in Bowes Park image by Nick Cooper on Wikimedia Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_River_Bowes_Park.jpg
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Tom Scott
Acum 7 Zile
I should clarify that by "out of ideas", I mean that I've only got enough to last me until the end of March, or maybe the middle of April if lockdown eases. The way I work, that's close enough that I start to get worried.
Dan Quayles ITS SPELT POTATOE!
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@TheMiningTeam "The point of GPT-3 is that it creates whole new sentences based on what it has seen before." YES EXACTLY! You do understand it is working off what it has access to? ITS NOT CREATING ANYTHOMNG FROM SCRATCH! Its copying everything it creates from other sentences. Combining words and phrases from other sentences and phrases. Since it doesnt know how to do it! it makes silly suggestions and impossible ones. This is why ARTIFICAL intelligence fails, it requires (REAL) INTELLEGNCE to do the things they try to get ARTIFICAL intelligence to do! You just cant code that!
TheMiningTeam
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@Dan Quayles ITS SPELT POTATOE! Not anymore. The point of GPT-3 is that it creates whole new sentences *based* on what it has seen before.
Dan Quayles ITS SPELT POTATOE!
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ARTIFICAL Intelligence just searches your sentences and compares to similar sentences then tries to combine them, thats why its so bad!
Ant D
Acum 11 ore
Tom, one suggestion: redo your old videos with the current level of production quality
Drodon
Acum 15 ore
What if flying sheep monkeys?
Carl Hartwell
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At the end there, I thought you were going to say _...when that happens, my job will get a bit harder..._ After all, you'll have much more competition.
taped wall
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I hate how this could be editors used to smear you name and credible it’s as a reporter and as long as the voice was loud and the ring anuff it would make people hate your and you followers anyways despight that it’s a great video I love your work
jimbobbyrnes
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well there is always the option of starting a second channel for coding/mathematics teaching. i feel like if you did videos like Ben Eater about whatever sciences that interest you it would probably take off.
Raina Ramsay
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"They would be wonderful to make, but I can't, because they're not true", says the guy who's already done a video about the AI virus that deleted a century, and the day Google stopped checking passwords
Yuuup
Acum 3 ore
*ALTSTALGIA*
James Postlethwaite
Acum 3 ore
What about the bird statues of cumbria that start at maryport roman museum they are mostly in perfect condition and left by romans
matrixphijr
Acum 4 ore
2:10 - Shots fired
TravisFabel
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I want to know more about this tiny underground railway for mail
Em Kav
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This video just randomly started playing in the background of my phone.
Renzo Torr
Acum 5 ore
damn gpt-3 really referenced Kirby's Dream Land
Miles Saxton
Acum 5 ore
I like the idea of the AI creating scripting an alternate world history, it would be a decent series if you’re up to it. You can probably call it ‘Up to earth history’ or something.
Zan (VB2P360)
Acum 5 ore
Anemoia and Fernweh are some words that would fit for "nostalgia for a place that doesn't exist".
random videos
Acum 5 ore
Id honestly love to watch these videos! 2:19
Robert Willoughby
Acum 6 ore
You could perhaps do something on Theosophy..... Seeing as that was Helena Von Hahn that became Helena Blavatsky. Theosophy has influenced the saner of the fringe religions (and a few nutty ones, BTW!) and a look at Theosophy and it's offshoots in the UK would be interesting.
Space Cadet
Acum 6 ore
I want to see a video about the cliff that refuses to be a cliff, please.
Henry
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To be fair if you say "the CIA tried to kill Castro with X" there's a fairly strong chance your right.
R Fry
Acum 7 ore
Green Death and the Industrial revolution would actually be a fascinating video, for those interested in mortuary science and the environment. Maybe not a Tom Scott video, but an interesting topic nonetheless.
MBRenegade
Acum 8 ore
I would love to see a fun series of just fictional stuff the AI comes up with, script included!
SHOGUNv07
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Wigan is not in the West Midlands. Or at least it hasn't been for the last 30 years I've been here.
Adoa
Acum 8 ore
Plot twist; Tom Scott is the AI
Alvin Johnsen
Acum 8 ore
5:24 Anemoia. Look it up
DarkDrai
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4:51 ...I like how you heard "Sanity-defying" and went with "sanitation-defying".
João Mrtins
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7:15 that car was perfectly synchronized.
Joel Nyström
Acum 8 ore
Nostalgia for a thing that never existed = fantasy fiction
bean_eater
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I can't stop thinking about Jeremy Clarkson gathering hundreds of people and executing them if they lost the lottery
Fouxjin
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All this video did was terrify me.
Remco Spijker
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Glad to hear Lofthouse is safe! All jokes aside, lovely video and a very intriguing view into AI that I had no idea made these kinds of strides. I do hope you'll let us know what video it predicted once you actually release it!
AndrehS86
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Tom: I'm out of ideas Also Tom: good idea
-AAA-
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5:04 You should actually go there at night for April Fools and just talk about the moon like it's a novelty to that place alone.
JunafaniFIN
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Planes land on water? Could also be Barra airport in Scotland. :D Well, it is beach but it is underwater on high tide.
Adrien Plazas
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Kirby's Dream. 🐽💨🍎🌳
МиШа
Acum 11 ore
the best thing here is how the hell AI knows it's not fictional, for him everything can be true, for example, the matrix can be a real world for it same as real-world. I am not sure someone will understand, I am not that good English speaker to translate my mind fully
Just Me
Acum 11 ore
Wigan Pier, West Midlands???? Lancashire
高橋有希
Acum 12 ore
This video is a proof that the AI is aware of itself
Allinavi
Acum 13 ore
Is this a real comment? Or just OpenAI's GPT-3 at it again?
Hege Valle
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I got such a kick out of you double checking on Lofthouse 🤣
Matthew Sparkes
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Also, I was walking in the Lofthouse last week so I'm glad you checked it hasn't vanished off the face of the earth 😂
Matthew Sparkes
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😂😂😂 I loved this hahahaha the Russian utopia was great
hitchhiker42
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If Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death involves exploding seashells, I am totally signing up for Amazon Prime.
Garnknopf
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please make a video like this and dont tell us until a few days later
Angelo
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The Onion: *Write that down!*
Clive Mitchell
Acum 13 ore
Prospero satellite?
Zombiemermaid101
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NGL I kinda want to make a "welcome to nightvale" esque video about things that never were
didibeck
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you should make a video of all the dull video ideas you passed off
weakpig
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In the future, I hope AI is advanced enough to self-generate a film or TV series that's completely based on the inputs of a human. example, I could feed it the original script of Alien (which differs from the movie) and it would make a movie out of it (and we wouldn't know the difference) Another example is "what if" series. Like Hulk vs superman, and it would make an actual movie of it.
Carl Yelland
Acum 14 ore
Time for a holiday then
Tyler Evans
Acum 14 ore
Plot twist : The Al gave the idea for this vedio
Gekkibi
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6:43 Farmland IS a Russian utopia, Scott...
NadiaPlaysGames
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What I'm thinking this could do is a never-ending choose your own adventure book think of that it generates chapter of story then you say what you do next
Bill Stickers
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I see Tom Scott had to check if Wanda made Lofthouse disappear
adonis parts
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All jokes aside imagine getting into an argument online and not knowing it's an AI
Drodon
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Jeremy Clarckson’s lottery of death BRUH I CANT WAIT!
Drodon
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What if HEAR ME OUT flying sheeep monkeys?
Special Agent Squeaky's Cozy Gaming Corner
Acum 15 ore
How do we even know Tom Scott is even real anymore? O___o
Sheryl Nome
Acum 15 ore
The post office railway sounds interesting enough tho
A. Tee
Acum 15 ore
4:09, "I've been. There.". Is Tom an AI robot?? While we're at it, F in Welsh is like an English V, so it was "Abervan" that had a disaster. I hope this smidgeon of knowledge doesn't make him too powerful.
Michael Pagan
Acum 16 ore
Wigan in the west Midlands......OK
Simon Booth
Acum 16 ore
have you made anything on GPS?
Calvino
Acum 16 ore
Ironic, that your ideas for videos also follow a sigmoid curve
Jason Last
Acum 17 ore
Imagine if you fed it Harry Potter
Fardin Fahim
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>I don't think there's a word for nostalgia that never existed The word you are looking for is Hauntology
Ben Barrett
Acum 18 ore
You can kind of tell it’s written by a bot.
Lucas
Acum 18 ore
This could be amazing for generating Roleplaying Games
K R
Acum 18 ore
Tom running out of ideas feels so... descriptive(?) for this time period. Nice job anyawys
alaskaxx
Acum 18 ore
There actually is a Russian old believers’ utopia. It’s just in South America, not East Yorkshire. Google it.
Waseem Iqbal
Acum 19 ore
😅 I agree, it's really difficult to put your life at risk by travelling in a driver-less vehicle. But ofcourse; you have to get there...where you have to be ... just take your time... no pressure.
RAMBO
Acum 19 ore
plot twist: we are in a parallel universe but Tom Scott is just a secret agent that tries to silence us
firefox5926
Acum 19 ore
7:27 more like that but repeated over and over to form a stair case .. and the height of each of them and the width of each of them can be diffrent
Mia Jære
Acum 19 ore
Your job'll get easier... Or you and a lot of other people will lose it😶
Adam sturgeon
Acum 19 ore
I think I’ve probably have an idea for nostalgia for a world that doesn’t exist Called “Notstalgia” “Nullstalgia”
Sean Fitzpatrick
Acum 20 ore
As a human resident of Holderness (definitely not any sort of AI), I approve this video.
Etu Suku
Acum 20 ore
Nice touch with the car passing during the sigmoidal curve swing.
lentils
Acum 20 ore
Brilliant Tom.
filmgekko
Acum 20 ore
I would love to see what The Technical Difficulties could come up with in a Zoom/online format.
Hayden Maines
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4:57 actually I think if you go back and watch the 1970s Doctor Who episodes featuring the Third Doctor you'll find several Mars missions were already underway, so it's likely that moon landings also occurred, which were both secret and long forgotten.
Ryan Roberts
Acum 21 oră
Wait...are you saying some things on the internet aren't true?!
TheMiningTeam
Acum 22 ore
I wish GPT-3 could be more open without it being used for evil.
BradTheBreadstick
Acum 22 ore
you're obsolete now tom
Jerl
Acum 22 ore
"The Cliff That Refuses To Be A Cliff" sounds like a thing that might actually be a thing and would probably be an interesting video. You should find it and make a video about it.
Coffee Succubus
Acum 22 ore
Then just take them, and go on another channel
Maxwell Berkowitz
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I don't have nostalgia for stuff that never existed very often, but I have nostalgia for what human civilization could be very often
NekoWerewolf
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I love you tom. No hetero.
CircsC
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Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death will be a gameshow co-hosted by Tom and Jeremy.
Hunter Morgan
Acum 23 ore
We went from Cleverbot to this.
Hunter Morgan
Acum 23 ore
If humans generated articles can be enough to fool the general public, imagine the misinformation that could come from AI. Couple that with the rising trend of automation by large businesses, and just imagine the chaos. The advent of AI is not in an of itself a bad thing. One could say that automation has been an aspect of human civilization for centuries. Just like the advent of the internet, the future only depends on how our governments react to new, unprecedented, and powerful technology.
Jaguar Playz
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"The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" So, a cliff that over time has been turning into a mountain through natural land manipulation?
PãüLèÿ Mùthønî
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lets hope matt coelbo takes this where tom cant go 😂
Ace Canacan
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I'd love when you ask GPT-3 what you should make a video about and it would just say, "ME!"
Samuel Forsyth
Acum o Zi
talk to clever bot..
Мікалас Кaрыбутоў
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Most of those fictional scenarios sound like SCP objects.
soinu foig
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"The Airport That Lands Planes On Water." Wendover Productions has entered the chat.
Crunchy
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If you dont have any video ideas just upload a video about not having any video ideas!
Brycen Bradley
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Anemoia (noun): Nostalgia for a time you've never known. Imagine stepping through the frame into a sepia-tinted haze, where you could sit on the side of the road and watch the locals passing by.
soinu foig
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Ahh yes, Kirby's Dream (land).
Michael Munson
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I want to watch Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death so bad! May the odds ever be in your favor!
Pyrite
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THE AI MADE KIRBYS DREAM LAND LMFAO
Loutre Sauvage
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The british boat that is also a road: The dover ferry literally
Jack P
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Why does "the cliff that refuses to be a cliff" sound weirdly like a Tom Scott video title?
mysteryshrimp
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The Green Death and the Industrial Revolution roughly describes The Doctor Who episode The Mark of the Rani.
Salutations YT!
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I hope whenever you release the video that the AI wrote the title for you credit the AI