I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good
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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: instagram.com/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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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: instagram.com/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
Licensed under CC-by 3.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
I'm at tomscott.com
on Twitter at twitter.com/tomscott
on Facebook at facebook.com/tomscott
and on Instagram as tomscottgo
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.
@Tom Scott you should go to Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly. (AKA the worlds smallest island) Its in the UK.
My science daddy, uwu *nuzzles you* sowwy for kiwwing your famiwy, awl I want is your mowtal fwesh.
i know theres probably a million comments that say this. theres a mistake in the thumbnail. theres still an american flag on the spacesuit.
@Doctor Mari-who Scom Tott
I see one really bad idea that bots could do even today that would bring someone a lot of money but also a lot of misery to people, so I wont even bring it out of my head, purely because if I see that trend happening, I'll feel like shite(and, I'm aware of parallel thinking and I know that someone has probably thought of it and has no moral quandary about it). I see an army of people like hamsters in a wheel running away but never getting there 24/7/365, that's as far i'll go into it..
Good
“Nostalgia for things that never existed” Not sure if this has already been said, but how about “Fauxstalgia”?
Do you memorize your scripts, do you use a prompter or just improvise?
7:18 that was the most perfectly timed car. It sounded so dramatic
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.
Nostagia for a thing that never existed... That's Vapourwave.
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.
2:10 Everything is gray.
I think you ought to make one of the fictional ones as an April fools video.
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.
written by a bot
Haha, English people call that a “beach”
hiraeth welsh for nostalgic feeling for a home that was never yours
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
Nostalgia for a thing that never existed "Country Roads", especially the Japanese translation
aberfan would be incredibly depressing but there is *definitely* a narrative there
@5:21 hauntology.
I like the comparison to a sigmoid curve (an activation function that’s also commonly used in neural networks like GPT-3)
Nostalgia for things that never existed, eh? Weebs unite.
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.
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.
Skynet
Dude, you're reverse aging! Make a reveal video talking about how you're actually a vampire! 😆
Tom is getting replaced.
"The green death and the industrial revolution." ...Arsenic Wallpaper?
If that happens your job will be not easier but obsolete.
The word is nullstalgia.
"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.
"Hey GPT-3. How can I ensure the success of the GPT-3 project?" Anyone read Avogadro Corp?
there is 100% a boat that’s a road you gotta find it
hey Tom, have you ever counted in binary on your fingers?
Well, your job might get a lot easier... but then, a bit after that, your job won't be needed... :-P *Singularity*
anemoiac is the "nostalgia for nonexistant past" word your looking for
English but all letters are phonetically consistent
This video was somehow not tagged as horror.
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.
For reference, the "strange light in the sky over Oxfordshire" is called the moon.
That word, one of nostalgia for something that doesn't exist; is hiraeth. It's Welsh.
KIRBY'S DREAM AAAAHAHHAHHAAHHA
Tom Scott makes me want to say hi
5:21 anemoia
Anemoia (Word in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows) is nostalgia for a time you've never known
I would love to watch one on the royal mail railway!
Tom Scott has been wearing the same grey hoodie for over six years now.
It’s going to get a lot easier to make videos from now on...
Is it just me or does a car go past just when its climactic
was this also a suggested idea?
I love that some of the ai ideas sound like tom scott memes
Did it come up with this idea?
“Nostalgia for things that never existed” Not sure if this has already been said, but how about “Fauxstalgia”?
Nostalgia for a thing that does not exist is exactly what nostalgia is actually about.
What if... this video was an idea from the AI?
@soiung toiue What does that have to do with my comment?
You should make a video about randomness and how computers are really bad at it.
I can't find a word for "nostalgia for a thing that never existed" in english, but there is one in german: it's "Sehnsucht".
All of your videos are about very concrete things in society and history that everyone either already knows or can quickly understand. They all give a neutral explanation of those things, which either directly or implicitly links them to things that other people wouldn't think to link them to, giving us a slightly deeper understanding of what we think we already know. Your dystopian reality videos and presentations from years ago, like the one about facebook's password authentication disappearing, are some of the most realistic and believable dystopian concepts that I've seen for that very reason. You can explore ideas while still feeling completely grounded in the physical world.
Did the A.I. suggest this video?
The scrawny town genotypically flower because owl expectantly file within a adjoining insect. overt, macho stove
Anemoia is close. Or perhaps saudade. Neither seems quite right though.
This was extremely interesting
Screw "Open"AI though.
Tom: Hey, AI, I'm short on video ideas, can you help? AI: How about making a video about AI?
"Wigan Pier is a derelict industrial site in the West Midlands". WEST!!!!???......MIDLANDS!!!!!?????? Wigan is very much in the north and I have never been so insulted before
I think what you could do next time you bring in some guest presenters while you take some time off is to revisit the fictional AI created ideas and hand them off to creative/humorous types as a challenge to see who can create these fantastical things
ok but did the UK have *any* space program? cuz that'd be one I'd like to hear, I know so little about other countries' space programs besides the US and China...
That an ai can give you good ideas that says something about your standards (and yes I get that im still watching it so I guess I can't say much)
7:15 good timed car
Perhaps the word you’re look my for is Anemoia. Not sure that’s spelled right but in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows this defined as nostalgia for a time you weren’t a part of.
You should make a video about randomness and how computers are really bad at it.
4:48 potential SCP stories?
Funfact: This whole video is actually the AI generated script and the prompt was "Please create a script for a video about me being out of ideas for a video and asking AI to help me come up with ideas titled "I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good"".
The car around 7:30 was perfect
grian?
Only Tom Scott can make a lack of content some of the best content on this site
6:00 you can lie. This is all TRUE. I saw it on ISdowns, and the host seemed quite legit.
You misunderstood... they're predictions
Jeremy Clarkson needs to watch this video and make the “lottery of death” happen 🤣
The art style for the plausible thumbnails is just fantastic, I love it, it manages to be right in the middle between "too complex" and "too simple", the colors were chosen really well and they just feel full, I just find them really appealing, anyone else?
I'm surprised by how many of those fictional stories sound like an SCP entry.
"never before written sentences" - dubious
Boattrains sound like a (rail)road that is also a boat.
Damn I kinda want the white cube video now
What if these are true and AI got them correct through patterns, just the whole internet where we keep the records lost it ...as not everything has been digitised.
This must have been around since at least 2016 to generate all the one-liners about how brilliant Brexit would be. All gibberish of course, but they sounded plausible enough.
There are paralel universes out there where each of these titles would be true. And did you ever think that "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" might not be about the formation but about the name Cliff.
this guys channel still never fails to amaze me lmfao
OH an SCP generator :P
An invisible village, huh? Oblivion, anyone?
the car at 7:12 is amazing
BTW: there is a Russian utopia in Potsdam, Germany. It‘s name is Alexandrovka.
Inexistalgia.
Could potentially be a boring one but it seems like your style (not that you're boring! It's just you cover weird little stories like this). What about the lack of BT in Hull (only place without BT lines in mainland Britain as far as I know). Just seems like a little oddity that's arose due to Britain being weird about things again.
2:42 The British adaptation of "Battle Royale"
Have you done a video on the sub sonic sound based phone systems used in stadiums to make synchronised patterns during sports games?
just for the record...nobody knows the real location of red cliff, or if it's a cliff at all.
know what, i might just do a video on it.
That emotion is yearning, LGBTQ+ community uses to talk about people, places, times, and aesthetics they want but know they can't have.
The Fidel Castro CIA seashell thing sounds like it would belong in an HAI video.
Lofthouse Please, drive carefully You might hit the few buildings that forgot to become visible
Did it get the idea for "Kirby's Dream" from Kirby's Dreamland?
Wait, when did Wigan Pier relocate to the West Midlands?
I would watch an Unreal Stories series from you
The cliff that refuses to be a cliff: A story of Europe's fastest eroding coast line, the Holderness coast