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/
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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/
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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.
@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
Wait Tom what was that aI though I want to mess with it
@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.
Stop forcing cliffs to be cliffs
“I got a bad feeling about this...”
The 7th one is a true tail
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WTF YT!
Kirby's Dream
7:15 that timing was just too perfect for the car to pass by. Felt like a crescendo
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.
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.
The Dream of a Russian Utopia in East Yorkshire sounds like it could be a novel written by the Cambridge 5.
plot twist scott isnt real hes just an ai, this was just him bragging about himself
sounds like nas daily to me
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
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
7:16 sounds a bit like a cliff that doesn't want to be a cliff
I just wanted to note that the timing of that car with the curve worked really well
Im guessing the AI gave you the idea "The AI that helped me find video titles"
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
This AI is how Trump makes his speeches
A lot of those good-but-fictional video titles sound like ideas for SCPs
Jeremy Clarkson's lottery of death actually sounds like something Jeremy would come up with
NOT-stalgia
5:23 isn’t that deja vu? Or is that a diff thing
Ah yes the infamous Park and Ride System
A guy just talking in one take. No jumpcuts, no three cuts per sentence, just coherent interesting talking. I love it.
"The British Road That Is Also A Boat" ah, a ferry
I would love for you to make a full series of videos in your signature-style, presenting these parallel-world places and events.
"The white cube at the end of the world" sounds like an SCP
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?
little does the AI know, it just guessed the plot of wandavision
Can we talk about how the AI accidentally created the plot of WandaVision?
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.)
Who else is here from Mumbo Jumbo?
I would love to watch “JEREMY CLARKSONS LOTTERY OF DEATH” on Amazon Prime Video
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if the thing that you said at the end of the video happends it wont make your job easier it will take your job
tom kirby's dream land is a video game
I'm sure we're not too far off from "generate me a youtube video in the style of Tom Scott" :P
I'm hoping this gets good enough so that we can tell to to finish tv shows that we're cancelled.
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.
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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 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...