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/
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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/
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I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good
Dipublikasikan tanggal 22 Peb 2021
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Tom Scott
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.
2_tan
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inkboy12345
Do a video on the floating ship illusion in falmouth, cornwall!!!
RedEra
@Lax512 it’s openai’s gpt3 but you have to give reasons and it has to be professional, but you can use gpt2 which is open to the general public
Lax512
Wait Tom what was that aI though I want to mess with it
Spencer Whipple
@Tom Scott you should go to Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly. (AKA the worlds smallest island) Its in the UK.
MrLunithy
Google stadia anyone .... in a nutshell machine learning>>>!
Armadeus
"specific and very limited ways"
is this a jab at something political tom? ;)
Takito Loko
7:47 "my job will get a lot easier" bud I think your job will get automated rather
Cody Nemo
I wanna know about Wiga Pier, the RRS Discovery, the Aberfan disaster, the New River, and the post office railway. I hope you actually reconsider and try harder to find a narrative hook.
Cody Nemo
Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death is something i'd subscribe to Amazon Prime for.
윱윱
What if one of the ideas it gave you for a video was were you talk about ideas that you can’t do in real life cause they’re fictional so you get an animator’s help to show what you wanna show..
Mahkus
Ai is going to either destroy or advance the world in less than 10 years
Derp Kid
The white cube at the edge of the world sounds like an scp
Barbecue Shoes
Wigan is in the North West, not West Midlands. A simple google search would have corrected this.
Spaceexplorer
"the strange light that floats over oxfordshire"
the moon: am i a joke to you?
JustSomeCringyKid
4:49
the ai really reinvented street fighter x tekken
Donald Rivers
The road that is also a boat: I-90 floating bridge in Seattle.
Mr !!?
Tom be soundin' like Mumbo Jumbo bout to give a Slime Block Tutorial
Ikethepro18
Now it can do my homework!
DJgregBrown
The strange light the flow over Oxfordshire could be a work as once a Balloon shaped like a TV style UFO flow over north Oxfordshire and many reported it to fox FM at the time. One of those things I partially remember of FOX FM before they sold out they had good trusty local news but we all now media is now brought and not local on Heart FM which now own them.
Omar Smith
Should have started the whole video with the script GPT-3 ran for you, Tom!
Lookaz stan
one of the suggestions were to make a video about the suggestions... AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII lmaoooooo
FFwachten
KIRBY"S DREAMland was a popular nintendo game (serie).
Tymoteusz Olechowski
1:03
I'm dying at the bottom one 💀
Kiieeraan
Wigan is not in the west midlands. how insulting.
Suburban Media
That car going past at speed at 7:13 ... Couldn't have been netter timed honestly.
FuzzzWuzzz
It's a bit disappointing that Kirby's Dreamland in reality is just a muggy patch of English countryside.
Jude Bedessem
7:14 That car in the background had excellent timing. Right on cue
sehhi vooty
“Nostalgia for things that never existed” Not sure if this has already been said, but how about “Fauxstalgia”?
Spencer Reisner
Was the episode you hadn't released yet at the time "Why Progress Bars Don't Move Smoothly"
sehhi vooty
I just wanted to note that the timing of that car with the curve worked really well
smhily ツ
Stop forcing cliffs to be cliffs
Philosophical_Cactus
“I got a bad feeling about this...”
izak baxendale
The 7th one is a true tail
Frogboyaidan
e here from jobos channel
Destory
WTF YT!
PossiblyAMagicMage
Kirby's Dream
Azim
7:15 that timing was just too perfect for the car to pass by. Felt like a crescendo
lnpilot
There's a Portugese word for nostalgia for something that never happened: "saudade". And there's a word for nostalgia for things that did happen, but way before you even existed: "anemoia". E.g. a longing for the 19th century.
lnpilot
So, you essentially ran a random text generator that created thousands of nonsensical titles, then you picked a few that made sense. Congratulations: you came up with a video idea.
Pat Keys
The Dream of a Russian Utopia in East Yorkshire sounds like it could be a novel written by the Cambridge 5.
Brandon Withnell
plot twist scott isnt real hes just an ai, this was just him bragging about himself
Simply Kiwified
sounds like nas daily to me
Sam Duke
You might find this word interesting then
Anemoia - Nostalgia for a time you’ve never known (from the dictionary of obscure sorrows)
As far as I can tell it’s not a “real” word but hey, all words are made up
Noah Binder
If you need more content, make a playlist or a second channel of scripts that AI generates. Even if its not real, I would absolutely watch those videos, and I assume I'm not the only one
the_muteKi
7:16 sounds a bit like a cliff that doesn't want to be a cliff
William Brennan
I just wanted to note that the timing of that car with the curve worked really well
Pickle Bug
Im guessing the AI gave you the idea "The AI that helped me find video titles"
Meable
Video ideas:
"The science of diving by 0"
"The things our brain doesn't let us remember"
"An AI made this video" (lots of clickbait)
"When will AI take over the world?"
"Why do we use the Internet?" (human relations and stuff)
"What's the time on Mars?" (a bit out of your normal videos but might be interesting)
"What's the limit of computers?"
"The battle between computers and humans" (about when computers became smarter than humans in terms of cpu power)
"The Pink Lakes of Australia"
Idk if you've made a video of these already but these might be interesting, I hope Tom sees this
Tobi Smasher
This AI is how Trump makes his speeches
Emerald
A lot of those good-but-fictional video titles sound like ideas for SCPs
shadowXXe
Jeremy Clarkson's lottery of death actually sounds like something Jeremy would come up with
Name of the Rose
NOT-stalgia
shitposter
5:23 isn’t that deja vu? Or is that a diff thing
Joniboii
Ah yes the infamous Park and Ride System
Backfisch_op
A guy just talking in one take. No jumpcuts, no three cuts per sentence, just coherent interesting talking. I love it.
Sara Johnsson
"The British Road That Is Also A Boat" ah, a ferry
Lukas Oliver Leo
I would love for you to make a full series of videos in your signature-style, presenting these parallel-world places and events.
mateyro999
"The white cube at the end of the world" sounds like an SCP
mateyro999
@NickDev XD
NickDev
time to steal ideas
SteveM
4:16
Tom: But I googled those words and they've never been put in that exact order anywhere online.
Library of Babel: Am I a joke to you?
Brandon Zhang
little does the AI know, it just guessed the plot of wandavision
ScarletBee03
Can we talk about how the AI accidentally created the plot of WandaVision?
Trevor
When the human-created AI creates the plot of show about a human creating AI, while being hunted by humans using AI to build their own AI, which was a pre-existing AI made out of another human-created AI. (Yes, this does make sense and is accurate to the MCU plot.)
Lorenzo Segoloni
Who else is here from Mumbo Jumbo?
Tymoteusz Olechowski
Me
Colin Crew
I would love to watch “JEREMY CLARKSONS LOTTERY OF DEATH” on Amazon Prime Video
Mahpi 380
9001st comment
Maks szczurek
if the thing that you said at the end of the video happends it wont make your job easier it will take your job
Parker Sedberry
tom kirby's dream land is a video game
ntt2k
I'm sure we're not too far off from "generate me a youtube video in the style of Tom Scott" :P
James Holden
I'm hoping this gets good enough so that we can tell to to finish tv shows that we're cancelled.
Promi Akter
Good
ceerw buty
“Nostalgia for things that never existed” Not sure if this has already been said, but how about “Fauxstalgia”?
Rubiking
Do you memorize your scripts, do you use a prompter or just improvise?
Nathan Young
7:18 that was the most perfectly timed car. It sounded so dramatic
ceerw buty
Why do your videos have to be about things that are true? I'd watch a "secret history of the British moon landing" video. Heck, I'd watch a full length documentary.
Ben Walsh
Nostagia for a thing that never existed...
That's Vapourwave.
Clockwork Otters
It's strange the English language lacks a word to describe the feeling of nostalgia for things that aren't real. The closest I can find are words that can't be translated back into English exactly.
"a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament." - Saudade (/souˈdädə/)
However, Saudade is used in relation to a feeling of longing for an absent "something", even if that thing never existed to begin with; such as when you see a painting of someone that seems familiar, and it brings with it the bitter-sweet feeling of having non-existent fond memories, and the knowledge you'll never see them.
It's unlike Anemoia from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which is just the nostalgia for "When times were better, even if you were never there", it's more like carrying your past emotions with you into the present like a time capsule.
This is the *closest* to what Scott asked, but it still does not feel entirely correct, considering Saudade is a far more blanket term from the melancholy of the past but having hope to experience old joys again in the future, even if it's with someone else.
And then there's Sehnsucht ([ˈzeːnˌzʊxt]), a German noun that expresses the feeling of longing for a "something", and in psychology refers to the idea of craving an alternative experience. However, it's more in line with regret, and thinking of the "Could haves" or "Might dos", instead of having outright nostalgia for a thing gone by. The experience of Sehnsucht is more easily expressed as "What if I said yes?" or having fantastical ideas about the future, such as imagining ones self as famous, or a fated meeting of a true love, or even the idea of finding something new to make you happy.
It feels almost natural to explain the feeling of nostalgia for things not experienced as "Agnostalgia", from ágnos/άγνωσ meaning "Unknown", and álgos/ἄλγος meaning "Pain", similar to the origin of Nostalgia.
MrEnjoivolcom1
2:10 Everything is gray.
David Balaam
I think you ought to make one of the fictional ones as an April fools video.
Vicky Boi
Make a separate channel with all the fictional ideas that GPT-3 made up if possible. They would be extremely interesting and would be very entertaining.
Filthy Light
written by a bot
Blithe Dream
Haha, English people call that a “beach”
NlC WILSON
hiraeth
welsh for nostalgic feeling for a home that was never yours
Iida
There is this cliff that looks like an elephant. I think he's the closest we get to cliff that doesn't want to be a cliff
Alex McD
Nostalgia for a thing that never existed
"Country Roads", especially the Japanese translation
suddenpenguin
aberfan would be incredibly depressing but there is *definitely* a narrative there
Alex Trebek
@5:21 hauntology.
Micah Reich
I like the comparison to a sigmoid curve (an activation function that’s also commonly used in neural networks like GPT-3)
Kingston Steele
Nostalgia for things that never existed, eh? Weebs unite.
Kerithanos
Why do your videos have to be about things that are true? I'd watch a "secret history of the British moon landing" video. Heck, I'd watch a full length documentary.
Yung Akuma
I imagine if anything, the word we could use for nostalgia of an alternative reality could be “alternis ovilis” which would roughly translate from Latin to “alternative nostalgia” I guess that’s more of a phrase than a word.
Astor Reed
Skynet
Steph
Dude, you're reverse aging! Make a reveal video talking about how you're actually a vampire! 😆
Jacob Lowenstein
Tom is getting replaced.
Tomyironmane
"The green death and the industrial revolution." ...Arsenic Wallpaper?
govi
If that happens your job will be not easier but obsolete.
My Name
The word is nullstalgia.
harbl99
"The British road that is also a boat"
There are streets named after Hood and Anson in Hastings. You think they'd be named after the admirals, but two of the neighbouring streets are Norfolk and Sussex. Turns out they're all named for battleships named after the admirals. Huh.
Not boats, but sailors:
there's a town in Canada (Ajax, Ontario) that names its streets after men who served on three WW1 ships. There was a big hoo-hah over it in 2020 when the name Hans Langsdorff (captain of the Graf Spee) somehow came up in the database.
FirstRisingSouI
"Hey GPT-3. How can I ensure the success of the GPT-3 project?"
Anyone read Avogadro Corp?
Dylan Evans
there is 100% a boat that’s a road you gotta find it
Bbonno
hey Tom, have you ever counted in binary on your fingers?
N Bee
Well, your job might get a lot easier... but then, a bit after that, your job won't be needed... :-P
*Singularity*
13darkjems
anemoiac is the "nostalgia for nonexistant past" word your looking for
Samantha Lowe
English but all letters are phonetically consistent
Quillyik
This video was somehow not tagged as horror.
Luiz Gabriel
It's cool how you can raise the "temperature" of the "how predictable" to make "good" interesting video titles that would get more clicks than "the beach where you can hear the sea", but if it is too high, it's actually not real and relatable enough to makes us want to watch it, and as you said, you needed to get the right measure, like a recipe to make a clickable title.
-Who would like to watch Jeremy Clarkson's in a russian roulette?-
This shows us that we are strange creatures, searching for knowledge yet afraid of the unreal and unknown.
Toby Littlejohn
For reference, the "strange light in the sky over Oxfordshire" is called the moon.