The Sentences Computers Can't Understand, But Humans Can

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  • Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2024

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  • @TomScottGo
    @TomScottGo  4 года назад +12092

    And that's the last in this run of the Language Files! There may well be more later in the year, but for now: thank you so much to co-authors Gretchen and Molly. Pull down the description for more about Gretchen's podcast and book!

    • @itsKarad
      @itsKarad 4 года назад +117

      how the f*** is this posted 1 month ago?

    • @pompeygod8969
      @pompeygod8969 4 года назад +47

      Tom Scott it says for me pinned 1 month ago and it’s been out for 3 mins...

    • @raghavendra_adiga
      @raghavendra_adiga 4 года назад +99

      A month old comment in a minute old video.. Classic Tom!

    • @Linkz64
      @Linkz64 4 года назад +9

      Thanks Tom, Gretchen and Molly. Very cool!

    • @themoon8321
      @themoon8321 4 года назад +28

      Tom why do you keep time traveling to make these comments

  • @liz257
    @liz257 4 года назад +3245

    When you have to re-read a whole paragraph in a fanfiction because at the end of it you find out you were imagining the character roles reversed... and now you have two parellel scenes visualised.

    • @peterpiper4592
      @peterpiper4592 4 года назад +394

      oh God, when the author doesn't make it clear which character is speaking in a scene and your left wondering why Sub would be saying something that only applies to Dom

    • @slaughterround643
      @slaughterround643 4 года назад +145

      lmao visualising while reading? pfft casual
      aphantasia gang

    • @PeerlessCucumberPiercingTheSky
      @PeerlessCucumberPiercingTheSky 4 года назад +133

      When they just leave what the characters are saying without clues as to who is saying what assuming I will pick up on who is who. Excuse me, but I'm dumb.

    • @sophiefilo16
      @sophiefilo16 4 года назад +248

      When you realize 5 chapters later that that one very important line was actually uttered by the _other_ character, completely changing your context for the last 5 chapters...

    • @raj4myo
      @raj4myo 4 года назад +11

      @@slaughterround643 yea boi!

  • @CloudHopperCat
    @CloudHopperCat 4 года назад +9208

    Things I didn’t expect to be mentioned in a Tom Scott video:
    •Slash fiction
    •Overwatch

    • @BismuthBorealis
      @BismuthBorealis 4 года назад +22

      Haha

    • @theprinceofnone
      @theprinceofnone 4 года назад +694

      weird that I'm working on overwatch slash fiction in another tab

    • @ShaunCheah
      @ShaunCheah 4 года назад +525

      "Large things can't fit inside smaller things."

    • @felipevasconcelos6736
      @felipevasconcelos6736 4 года назад +229

      Shaun Cheah, according to slash writers? Yes, they can.

    • @Yay295
      @Yay295 4 года назад +65

      •AI Dungeon

  • @emilioalban1234
    @emilioalban1234 Месяц назад +672

    Looking back on this 4 year old video after the release of GPT-4 shows how quickly this tech has developed

    • @unterrunden
      @unterrunden Месяц назад +29

      just incredible, isn't it? or maybe frightening?

    • @Linkman8912
      @Linkman8912 Месяц назад +27

      Or GPT-3, honestly. I remember using that and it was magical

    • @giustobuffo
      @giustobuffo 23 дня назад +17

      I was just thinking we might benefit from an update on this topic.

    • @TheBluePhoenix008
      @TheBluePhoenix008 17 дней назад +10

      Try asking it how many rs are in strawberry

    • @Linkman8912
      @Linkman8912 17 дней назад +7

      @TheBluePhoenix008 there's 2 Rs in strawbery, duh

  • @danh945
    @danh945 18 дней назад +21

    I love coming back to this video. I think it is excellent, Tom explains it really well, and there really isn't any flaw to the arguments that he is making. Of course we know that he was completely wrong just 2 years later, but that makes me like the video more. He wasn't wrong because of any factual error, but because nobody could predict just how incredible LLMs would become at natural language processing. Rather than complain that it aged like milk we should instead hold up this masterpiece of a video as a lesson that things are not as difficult as we always think they are, and the seemingly impossible might be on the verge of being achieved.

  • @RunnerBeanzDad
    @RunnerBeanzDad 4 года назад +7165

    "I saw the thief with my bicycle" - the thief has my bicycle.
    "I saw the thief with my binoculars" - either I or the thief might have my binoculars.

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff 4 года назад +840

      "I saw the thief with my bicycle with my binoculars"
      "I saw the thief with my binoculars with my binoculars"

    • @nikokrisp5273
      @nikokrisp5273 4 года назад +189

      You did not just use alot of binocular(s?) to see a damn thief

    • @nathangamble125
      @nathangamble125 4 года назад +333

      @@Liggliluff You have two sets of binoculars?

    • @druid_zephyrus
      @druid_zephyrus 4 года назад +286

      What about the fact that it is very difficult but, not impossible, to saw the thief with your bicycle?
      Edit: it is much easier if you use just the chain.

    • @golazo
      @golazo 4 года назад +95

      The thief saw me with my own binoculars.

  • @katrinafraser9746
    @katrinafraser9746 3 года назад +5172

    “Artificial language processing remains ten years away, just as it has for the last few decades” is genuinely such a great quote

    • @jimmyzhao2673
      @jimmyzhao2673 3 года назад +180

      Just like fusion is the energy source of the future -- and always will be.

    • @swimfan752
      @swimfan752 3 года назад +31

      It’s not as great as you’re making it sound tbh

    • @Merilirem
      @Merilirem 3 года назад +83

      Its only because we are just a step away from it, but time is a bad measurement since genius could strike at any time. If everything went well we could have it done in 2.

    • @darylingoteborg3178
      @darylingoteborg3178 3 года назад +91

      @@Merilirem indeed: hard to put a timeline on innovation.
      Every new invention is a million years away the day before it’s suddenly conceived of

    • @DannySullivanMusic
      @DannySullivanMusic 3 года назад +5

      wow. totally, totally true!!

  • @TailsClock
    @TailsClock 4 года назад +23874

    "Siri call me an ambulance!"
    "You're an ambulance."

  • @RoseAbrams
    @RoseAbrams Год назад +2598

    Yesterday I put those sentences into OpenAI Chatbot, and it successfully answered all of them.
    Turns out machine learning WAS gonna save us, less than 3 years later. Checkmate Tom.

    • @Jason9637
      @Jason9637 Год назад +347

      I tested asking it to put the suitcase inside the trophy. It stuffed the suitcase inside, and admitted it was a silly idea. So yes, it is extremely good at understanding this stuff.

    • @krishp1104
      @krishp1104 Год назад +210

      @@Jason9637It could also be because it was asked that question by others who watched the video so it learned from it

    • @sciencetube4574
      @sciencetube4574 Год назад +419

      I asked it about the trophy sentence and it got it correct. Then I switched from “too big” to “too small” and it gave the same (wrong) answer. ChatGPT is good, but not intelligent.

    • @ralisgroffen
      @ralisgroffen Год назад +12

      He just made a video :)

    • @givepassword
      @givepassword Год назад +78

      @@krishp1104 ChatGPT doesn't learn from interactions.

  • @L4Vo5
    @L4Vo5 4 года назад +7433

    Tom: Put the suitcase in the trophy
    AI: So anyway, I started blasting...

    • @LeoAr37
      @LeoAr37 4 года назад +100

      Omfg underrated comment

    • @aceanimations3214
      @aceanimations3214 4 года назад +25

      This deserves more likes 😂

    • @AbsoluteAbsurd
      @AbsoluteAbsurd 4 года назад +3

      XD

    • @casda5226
      @casda5226 4 года назад +7

      Eat your cereal

    • @miffedmeff7302
      @miffedmeff7302 4 года назад +13

      Go watch the Yogscast's series of videos on it, absolutely hilarious

  • @DavidZanter
    @DavidZanter 4 года назад +3504

    I once tried to add "two cans of chilli" to my grocery list. And it added "toucans of Chile."

    • @renakunisaki
      @renakunisaki 4 года назад +793

      "add a note to feed the baby" becomes "add a note: defeat the baby".

    • @lemonandgaming6013
      @lemonandgaming6013 4 года назад +97

      @@renakunisaki oh no..

    • @Stettafire
      @Stettafire 4 года назад +70

      @@renakunisaki That's brilliant xD Good robot.

    • @zad_rasera
      @zad_rasera 4 года назад +78

      @@renakunisaki Is this a challenge?!

    • @vituperation
      @vituperation 4 года назад +120

      So that's why my smart fridge is full of birds and my food bill skyrocketed.
      Chili was still good though.

  • @ZombeeStar
    @ZombeeStar 4 года назад +5172

    tom: "put the suitcase in the trophy"
    AI: "i'll get the gun"

    • @mikespearwood3914
      @mikespearwood3914 3 года назад +41

      T800: "A phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range".

    • @TheGregamonster
      @TheGregamonster 3 года назад +135

      AI dungeon gets confused sometimes. And when it does, it usually resolves that confusion by injecting violence.

    • @brandonfrancey5592
      @brandonfrancey5592 3 года назад +76

      So it's an American AI program.

    • @AffyMoon
      @AffyMoon 3 года назад +31

      @@TheGregamonster remembering the time the characters were in court and one of the characters just pulled out a gun??? Even though they never had access to one?

    • @ThatOneCreature
      @ThatOneCreature 3 года назад +4

      @@brandonfrancey5592 😂

  • @Burneth_
    @Burneth_ Год назад +440

    Feb.19.2023
    I asked chat gpt:
    "The trophy would not fit in the suitcase because it was too big." What is the sentence referring to by "too big"?
    It replied:
    In the sentence "The trophy would not fit in the suitcase because it was too big," the phrase "too big" is referring to the size of the trophy. The trophy is too large to fit inside the suitcase, so it cannot be packed and transported in that way.

    • @Burneth_
      @Burneth_ Год назад +3

      Just food for thought👌

    • @Marshmellow_Cat
      @Marshmellow_Cat Год назад +14

      I mean the video is 3 years ago...

    • @liamneedsauniquehandle
      @liamneedsauniquehandle Год назад +52

      that's just because it read about this problem

    • @medogerty6013
      @medogerty6013 Год назад +48

      @@liamneedsauniquehandle Nope. Try using other similar examples using the word “it” in an unclear way. It understands.

    • @Caesar512
      @Caesar512 Год назад +124

      I asked it a newer one it may not have seen yet,
      The ball broke the table because it was made of steel. What was made of steel?
      It told me this was ambiguous.
      To its credit when I corrected it and told it that this was an example of a Winograd schema and that one of the two interpretations was obviously correct, it did pick the ball as the steel object.
      But then, to its detriment again, you can try this replacing steel with Styrofoam to change the meaning around. It gets even worse and doesn't think it is ambiguous at all--and insists that a Styrofoam ball would not break a table. And when warned again that there is a right answer, it says that the Styrofoam ball did break the table.
      The ones it gets right, it gets right because it has seen them in the training set because they are classical examples. It is smoke and mirrors though, and it still chokes on anything novel.

  • @happyface-
    @happyface- 3 года назад +19688

    Playing a text adventure:
    “Put the suitcase in the trophy”
    Computer:
    “Ah, so you chose *gun.”*

  • @aarongiroux5416
    @aarongiroux5416 4 года назад +4581

    Put the suitcase in the trophy.
    Ai: pulls out gun

    • @hengineer
      @hengineer 4 года назад +55

      Then I pull out my robe and my hat

    • @sf8262
      @sf8262 4 года назад +45

      PUT IT IN, NOW!

    • @Makura6901
      @Makura6901 4 года назад +104

      So anyways i started blasting

    • @hayden.A0
      @hayden.A0 4 года назад +90

      If that AI is ever given a physical body we are in trouble. "Pack my suitcase, will you?" "Certainly. *BANG*"

    • @F-Lambda
      @F-Lambda 4 года назад +54

      @@hayden.A0 Oh, he's packing all right.

  • @notwildcard377
    @notwildcard377 4 года назад +11485

    "The woman(1) beat her daughter(2) because she(x) was drunk."
    Confuses me still.

    • @hayden.A0
      @hayden.A0 4 года назад +2228

      Probably one of the best examples. I've seen it before and even in other languages.

    • @KnakuanaRka
      @KnakuanaRka 4 года назад +1301

      I think that would be completely ambiguous.

    • @Michael-Hammerschmidt
      @Michael-Hammerschmidt 4 года назад +1194

      @@hayden.A0 Not one of the best examples because, as Tom said, they are made to be totally unambiguous and easy for humans to understand. Which is why it is so interesting that computers struggle so greatly with them.

    • @Michael-Hammerschmidt
      @Michael-Hammerschmidt 4 года назад +1436

      @@emperorborgpalpatine No one understands it. The sentence, "The woman(1) beat her daughter(2) because she(x) was drunk." is entirely ambiguous, which misses the point of testing AI with unambiguous statements.

    • @virtualabc7847
      @virtualabc7847 4 года назад +18

      Awesome

  • @SolunaStarlight
    @SolunaStarlight 12 дней назад +9

    3:50 viewing this now almost gives me chills with the amount of progress we've made in just 4 years

  • @yuvalne
    @yuvalne 4 года назад +3659

    One of my favourite examples of such a sentence:
    "The disco ball went through the table because it was made of steel/styrofoam." The meaning of "it" depends solely on the last word.

    • @Stratelier
      @Stratelier 4 года назад +279

      Wikipedia refers to this as "syntactic ambiguity".

    • @Maelwys
      @Maelwys 4 года назад +339

      You could do the same thing with Tom's opening sentence. Change the last word from "big" to "small" and the sentence still makes sense (except now x=2)

    • @abramo7700
      @abramo7700 4 года назад +180

      what table is made of styrofoam?

    • @retepaskab
      @retepaskab 4 года назад +5

      Unless we know that the speaker is not very smart.

    • @omri9325
      @omri9325 4 года назад +70

      Im totally allowed to have a table made out of styrofoam!

  • @SuperT
    @SuperT 4 года назад +13627

    “If you’re writing a gay romance”
    As I normally do, of course

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff 4 года назад +372

      To be fair, I don't write romances at all, or write at all ... stories that is. I've clearly written this reply.

    • @Boooo
      @Boooo 4 года назад +508

      @@Liggliluff I don't write anything, not even comments online.

    • @Brindlebrother
      @Brindlebrother 4 года назад +210

      that's gay

    • @hatmanharris5287
      @hatmanharris5287 4 года назад +119

      BooMan I see what you did there. Also I can’t even read

    • @nathangamble125
      @nathangamble125 4 года назад +70

      @@Liggliluff I just think this is amusing, considering your profile pic and channel content. I'm almost *surprised* that you don't write slash/shipfics.

  • @puzzled-head3493
    @puzzled-head3493 4 года назад +5640

    Tom: "suitcases"
    AI: " m u r d e r "

    • @garybrisebois2667
      @garybrisebois2667 4 года назад +12

      Gas Cooker Sketch!

    • @WLxMusic
      @WLxMusic 4 года назад +247

      AI dungeon has a real violent streak in it. I tried to "go to sleep" once and it made a troll break in through my window and shoot me in the head. Absolutely no chill, I must say.

    • @otakuman706
      @otakuman706 4 года назад +50

      @@WLxMusic I feel like I should be kinda... surprised by this, but given who 'taught' it, I'm not at all.

    • @lovelykitty42
      @lovelykitty42 4 года назад +2

      Random Awesome uh

    • @personita2.733
      @personita2.733 4 года назад +106

      "Put the suitcase in the trophy"
      AI: I know exactly what to do know , _pulls out gun_ , *get in the trophy , now*

  • @ugthefluffster
    @ugthefluffster 27 дней назад +114

    "This is 10 years away" - this aged like milk

    • @facundogriglio3316
      @facundogriglio3316 12 дней назад +3

      a computer still cant "understand" it

    • @alphaONEphoenix
      @alphaONEphoenix 10 дней назад +7

      @@facundogriglio3316 just tried with chatgpt 4o mini this is what it said:
      The trophy wouldn't fit in the brown suitcase because it was too big, meaning its size exceeded the available space inside the suitcase. There could be several reasons for this:
      Height/Length: The trophy might be taller or longer than the suitcase's interior dimensions.
      Shape: The trophy could have an irregular shape (e.g., a wide base or large decorative elements) that doesn't align with the suitcase's compartments or structure.
      Fragility: The trophy might require special handling, and trying to force it into the suitcase could risk damaging it, making it impractical to fit.
      Inflexibility: Unlike flexible items, a trophy might have a rigid structure, meaning it can't be squished or bent to fit into a smaller space.

    • @facundogriglio3316
      @facundogriglio3316 10 дней назад +3

      @@alphaONEphoenix i didnt say it cant answer the question, I'm saying it cant understand it, an AI so far is only a machine that processes a ton of information to output what other people or many other people said.

    • @alphaONEphoenix
      @alphaONEphoenix 10 дней назад +1

      @@facundogriglio3316 i did not say it could i just showed what i found

    • @facundogriglio3316
      @facundogriglio3316 10 дней назад

      @alphaONEphoenix touche

  • @sir_slimestone3797
    @sir_slimestone3797 4 года назад +7476

    "Larger things can't fit in smaller things"
    Me playing Minecraft putting thousands of cubic meters of gold in a single chest.

    • @cezarcatalin1406
      @cezarcatalin1406 4 года назад +292

      Sir_Slimestone
      This is beyond science

    • @Rawlingm
      @Rawlingm 4 года назад +351

      I was thinking of something much different

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney 4 года назад +64

      Check out Mario's wallet full of gold coins. Who needs a chest?

    • @mojosbigsticks
      @mojosbigsticks 4 года назад +29

      And an 11ft pole in my backpack!

    • @advanceringnewholder
      @advanceringnewholder 4 года назад +45

      Technicaly you can fit 46,656 1 meter by 1 meter blocks of gold in a single chest

  • @Beth-td6vj
    @Beth-td6vj 3 года назад +6810

    “Put the suitcase in the trophy”
    AI: “best I can do is gun”

    • @xbon1
      @xbon1 3 года назад +30

      Poor software to test gpt on

    • @darkursrike3161
      @darkursrike3161 3 года назад +11

      When you use siri on the school

    • @greenix1776
      @greenix1776 3 года назад +1

      I'm the 1000th like

    • @veroxid
      @veroxid 3 года назад +21

      GPT-2 must be American.

    • @armingamer5546
      @armingamer5546 3 года назад +2

      Take it or leave it.

  • @skycaptain39
    @skycaptain39 4 года назад +6680

    Me: oh boy a new linguistics video, I wonder what this one is-
    Tom Scott: y'all know about gay fanfiction?

    • @do-re-mi-fabeat4449
      @do-re-mi-fabeat4449 4 года назад +420

      Ah, something I am knowledgeable about! Finally!

    • @Fizz-Q
      @Fizz-Q 4 года назад +46

      @@do-re-mi-fabeat4449 sadly... Same

    • @Jonic_P
      @Jonic_P 4 года назад +63

      Someone how I was more surprised by the sudden Overwatch reference/e-sports terms

    • @imnotgaybut6408
      @imnotgaybut6408 4 года назад +25

      *My time has come*

    • @clamflam6308
      @clamflam6308 4 года назад +52

      @@Fizz-Q what do you mean "sadly"?
      I G L A D L Y K N O W A B O U T I T

  • @jigglycuber2009
    @jigglycuber2009 3 года назад +359

    You: "Put the trophy in the suitcase"
    Computer: "Ok pulling out gun"
    You: "No"
    Computer: "Ok putting away gun"
    You: "Open suitcase"
    Computer: "Takes out gun and shoots suitcase"

    • @Mister_Sun.
      @Mister_Sun. Год назад +2

      i don't get it

    • @glorpri
      @glorpri 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@Mister_Sun. Neither do i

    • @rainbowevil
      @rainbowevil 27 дней назад

      Neither did the AI that Tom showed towards the end of the video (GPT-2)

  • @kicksledkid
    @kicksledkid 4 года назад +2328

    The year is 2020. Tom Scott has mentioned slash fic in a video about linguistic computing.

    • @KeybladeSpirit
      @KeybladeSpirit 4 года назад +93

      The credits roll. When they finish, two words remain onscreen: "Bad(?) End"

    • @wohdinhel
      @wohdinhel 4 года назад +42

      this timeline isn’t so bad after all

    • @666Tomato666
      @666Tomato666 4 года назад +3

      A future better than Jetsons predicted!

    • @njones420
      @njones420 4 года назад +3

      ...as Lena began to insert the trophy...
      nevermind

    • @CallMeTess
      @CallMeTess 4 года назад +1

      to be fair, it was a great example

  • @theonlyjoe_
    @theonlyjoe_ 4 года назад +9089

    Me: cool lessons on computing
    Tom: lesbians and overwatch

  • @PrincessFelicie
    @PrincessFelicie 4 года назад +32032

    Haha, the gay fanfiction dilemma. A classic.

    • @risu2312
      @risu2312 4 года назад +842

      Congratulations this is now the most liked comment here 👏👏

    • @icarus.9306
      @icarus.9306 4 года назад +1712

      _wattpad flashbacks_

    • @LazyRare
      @LazyRare 4 года назад +76

      K

    • @retvolution
      @retvolution 4 года назад +151

      Oh god yes xddd

    • @AbsoluteAbsurd
      @AbsoluteAbsurd 4 года назад +57

      Wha?

  • @BobDiaz123
    @BobDiaz123 Год назад +18

    We can still understand even when a person who has trouble speaking English says things incorrectly.
    This works both ways, even when I use the wrong word in Spanish, native Spanish speakers still understand what I was trying to say. I find this human ability to put the parts together, even when something is wrong, is amazing.

  • @Infinite_Archive
    @Infinite_Archive 4 года назад +6592

    Ah yes. The Tom Scott video with AI Dungeon, slash-fiction, and Overwatch.

    • @virtualashez
      @virtualashez 3 года назад +61

      But isn’t Team Fortress 2 better?

    • @ixchel3330
      @ixchel3330 3 года назад +26

      @@virtualashez Nope(imo)

    • @jameswiseman5451
      @jameswiseman5451 3 года назад +129

      @@virtualashez they're both great, and very different games

    • @virtualashez
      @virtualashez 3 года назад +4

      @@jameswiseman5451 Yes. I know.

    • @virtualashez
      @virtualashez 3 года назад +8

      @@ixchel3330 Have you even played TF2 for at least 500 hours?

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 года назад +5523

    Well, that computer became hostile the moment it couldn't understand what you were typing

  • @cherryblossompossum3566
    @cherryblossompossum3566 4 года назад +2234

    "We all have experiences with suitcases and trophies."
    Maybe you do Tom, but I'm a loser.

    • @jayteegamble
      @jayteegamble 4 года назад +55

      You should have been a Millennial; we got sweet Participation Trophies.

    • @FMFF_
      @FMFF_ 4 года назад +35

      @@jayteegamble is that actually true or just a joke. I only ever got paper participation/attendance awards and that's it. I got trophies/ ribbons for winning.
      Did anyone ever get a little trophie for participation? If so, for what and where? Genuinely curious if it happens or if it's one of those hollywood exaggerations.

    • @neurofiedyamato8763
      @neurofiedyamato8763 4 года назад +23

      I don't get crap for participation

    • @zzanatos2001
      @zzanatos2001 4 года назад +16

      @@FMFF_ It's a fictional Boomer myth they like to perpetuate to demonstrate how much better they are than everyone else. The only time I have ever seen anyone get participation ribbons has been at pee wee sports events and the Special Olympics.

    • @tibfulv
      @tibfulv 4 года назад +4

      In my competition everyone got a trophy for participation. Except me, because the trophies were too expensive. Taught me a valuable lesson in economics: Why everyone doesn't get a trophy.

  • @thirdpedalnirvana
    @thirdpedalnirvana 6 месяцев назад +13

    It's crazy this was only 4 years ago

  • @SkellyBones9341
    @SkellyBones9341 4 года назад +2356

    Tom: try to put a suitcase in a trophy.
    AI: I think I should shoot it

  • @Karmigula
    @Karmigula 4 года назад +907

    "Larger things can't fit in smaller things"
    This is the point at which we apply force.

    • @chuu7062
      @chuu7062 4 года назад +55

      Uhh.. that sounds wrong 😂

    • @fghsgh
      @fghsgh 4 года назад +62

      and that brings us to GPT-2, which interprets "to apply force" as "shoot it"

    • @dafoex
      @dafoex 4 года назад +29

      I've been a furry so long that I know exactly where this is going.
      To anyone else; please buy a normal size Bad Dragon

    • @dhiya6138
      @dhiya6138 4 года назад +17

      Add lube my dudes, it makes the situations better for both parties

    • @lexilala1968
      @lexilala1968 4 года назад +20

      @@lilylopnco
      Now my books are wet, thanks a lot

  • @jaxsmolenbee4683
    @jaxsmolenbee4683 3 года назад +1577

    “But that’s awkward “
    FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT

    • @colemorgan3356
      @colemorgan3356 3 года назад +231

      Yesss. Like please just use their names or restructure your sentences. "The blond-haired boy" just sounds so weird because nobody thinks like that about people

    • @Nebula_o7
      @Nebula_o7 3 года назад +173

      @@colemorgan3356 Its even worse when they refer to them as younger and older, especially in sexual scenes

    • @_lexi
      @_lexi 3 года назад +60

      its so hard to restructure the sentences over and over in a way that isnt repetitive. :(

    • @colemorgan3356
      @colemorgan3356 3 года назад +144

      @@_lexi It may sound repetitive to you as the writer, but I promise you your readers won't notice and won't care

    • @nightlove3574
      @nightlove3574 3 года назад +148

      @@colemorgan3356 This cannot be stressed enough! It's like the word 'said.' The reader is conditioned to not notice it after so much exposure, and names and pronouns are the same way.

  • @pbangsund
    @pbangsund Год назад +835

    "Artificial language processing remains 10 years away, just as it has for the last few decades." Well, that didn't age well!

    • @YellowJelly13
      @YellowJelly13 Год назад +49

      It only took 2 years to prove him wrong haha

    • @lurrielee2755
      @lurrielee2755 Год назад +106

      ​​@@YellowJelly13GPT3 was finished within months of this video being published. It just wasn't released to the public until 2022. In actuality, he was practically already wrong at the time this video was filmed - he just didn't know it yet.

    • @GalliadII
      @GalliadII Год назад +53

      @@lurrielee2755 reminds me of the wright brothers and "flight is about 1000 years in the future" - quote from some scientific journal in 1913.

    • @Urammar
      @Urammar Год назад +9

      @@lurrielee2755 GPT2 had already made massive waves in the nerd/chatbot sphere of people that care about such things. He had already been wrong for quite some time, a year or so at time of publishing, it just wasnt very huge in the public zeitgeist yet.
      Honestly as much as I love him, he simply wasnt that researched for this video to make that kind of claim.

    • @kintex6441
      @kintex6441 Год назад +20

      ​@@UrammarYou say this like Gpt2 and more relevantly gpt3 are still far from perfect. Sure, it's able to reply back, and while I can't talk about exactly how it works due to a lack of understanding in the internal mechanisms (Which to be frank, even the creators probably don't know), from the times I've used it, the learning through repetition is somewhat successful, but not nearly as effective as the personal experience we have simply through learning. He wasn't wrong, people just credit the program for the wrong things.

  • @hheecckk526
    @hheecckk526 3 года назад +1390

    "we all have experience with trophies"
    You didn't have to just flex on people like me that casually

    • @mfirdanhb
      @mfirdanhb 3 года назад +9

      Buying a cup is kinda a trophy

    • @TheGhostInThePhoto
      @TheGhostInThePhoto 3 года назад +34

      @@mfirdanhb
      Buying a cup is better than getting a trophy. A trophy has no functional use other than collecting dust. A cup holds things and occupies far less space. You also don’t typically have to compete over a cup (with exceptions).

    • @DannySullivanMusic
      @DannySullivanMusic 3 года назад +1

      wow. totally, totally spot on.

    • @fos1451
      @fos1451 3 года назад +3

      @CozyFrog
      That's not how it works,
      I never went to the moon, that doesn't mean I have experience with the moon,
      I don't even see how what you said make a bit of sense,
      If you never even have or go or see it, you never experience it

    • @aeircrown7994
      @aeircrown7994 3 года назад +14

      @@TheGhostInThePhoto I don't know, I want feel what is like to drink from a trophy tho.

  • @ffggddss
    @ffggddss 4 года назад +846

    And then there's the famous, "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
    Fred

    • @doxed64
      @doxed64 4 года назад +34

      oh god what have you done

    • @docinabox258
      @docinabox258 4 года назад +19

      That is not grammatically correct. The correct way to say that would be to say, “ fruit flies like bananas”

    • @ffggddss
      @ffggddss 4 года назад +114

      @@docinabox258 Both are perfectly fine grammatically.
      Picture a banana - just one of them - being swarmed with fruit flies, illustrating that fruit flies like a banana.
      Just like you might say, "I like a good cup of coffee;" or, "I like a baseball game." It's understood that there are many of either of these things, and that you like them all.
      Fred

    • @pajanewcomer4323
      @pajanewcomer4323 4 года назад +6

      Hello zilean

    • @CRlMZlN
      @CRlMZlN 4 года назад +17

      Hi Fred.

  • @OHYS
    @OHYS 4 года назад +2778

    Tom's example about the troubles of writing gay romance seemed oddly specific.

    • @meetaverma8372
      @meetaverma8372 4 года назад +34

      I was going to go with your joke, but then I'd feel a little dumb

    • @MyPandaemonium
      @MyPandaemonium 4 года назад +100

      You mean to tell me you've never written Yaoi?

    • @erica8952
      @erica8952 4 года назад +202

      Who doesn't enjoy a nice gay fanfic after a hard day's work?

    • @Mateon1
      @Mateon1 4 года назад +14

      I don't, I read crackfics (not shippy) instead

    • @jiangciyang3860
      @jiangciyang3860 4 года назад +8

      @@MyPandaemonium bruh yaoi is manga and manga is gay

  • @danielsalinaslopez3541
    @danielsalinaslopez3541 Год назад +131

    I’ve tried the trophy-suitcase problem on Chat GPT-3 and it’s astonishing how much this technology has advanced in just three years.

    • @petrkdn8224
      @petrkdn8224 Год назад +10

      gpt 3 was actually released later in 2020, after this video was published, so its been that was since roughly the video came out.. GPT4 came out couple months ago, and if you take a look at the timespans between each GPT version, its around 2 to 3 years, so it only makes sense

    • @SeverityOne
      @SeverityOne Год назад +4

      @@petrkdn8224I tried the tablecloth example with GPT-4. Not only did it provide the correct answer, it also rephrased the sentence in order to make it clearer.

    • @lrizzard
      @lrizzard Месяц назад

      now we have to solve the rs in strawberry

  • @WLxMusic
    @WLxMusic 4 года назад +2367

    That moment you go, "hmm, i usually use visual or character traits to distinguish between same pronouned characters in my gay romance fanfics" and then Tom calls you out on it as weird and amateur.

    • @muffycat
      @muffycat 3 года назад +143

      Fr not all of us are professionals like you, Tom O_O (joking)

    • @spopydude69
      @spopydude69 3 года назад +92

      Hmm yes Tom did you forget that people have names too

    • @CreoTan
      @CreoTan 3 года назад +104

      It’s not always a bad thing in writing, but usually it’s used as a crutch or a bandaid solution, instead of intentionally, which is why it often comes off as amateur
      Really, when it comes to writing, there are general guidelines, but no strict, set rules-because there’s always gonna be someone who will break those rules and do it well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @randomfox12245
      @randomfox12245 3 года назад +44

      I did spend a few minutes thinking about how I'd word that sentence so it'd work before I realized the entire sentence was just trash and should be thrown out completely.

    • @orngjce223
      @orngjce223 2 года назад +20

      Personally, Blaseball has been a good training ground for some people I know to stop using synecdoche and epithets, as characters have zero canonical descriptions of appearance at all, so no amount of "pinkette" or "the taller one" is going to disambiguate which character is which. You could try looking at fanfic from there to improve on that specific skill.
      Similarly, Homestuck fandom is really good at second person (written from the perspective of "you") because canon is written in second person.
      If you want other recommendations feel free to ask!

  • @mikedamat
    @mikedamat 4 года назад +2449

    "Artificial language processing remains 10 years away, just as it has for the last few decades."
    If you could summarize futurology in a single statement, that would be it.

    • @Mosern1977
      @Mosern1977 4 года назад +18

      Fusion is 30 years away, so language processing is closer:)

    • @gNpNct
      @gNpNct 4 года назад +55

      ​@@Mosern1977 Fusion was always 50 years away then, and now it's (always?) 30 years. That must be an improvement!

    • @AnhThuNguyen-zz2hm
      @AnhThuNguyen-zz2hm 4 года назад +2

      1970+10=1980
      2020?1980
      2020>1980

    • @Chloe_Heather
      @Chloe_Heather 4 года назад +5

      ironically this comment has the read more sign even though it doesn't show any more text, in my glitched outdated app.

    • @dillon7981
      @dillon7981 4 года назад +5

      Jackie Tearie besides the fact that nuclear energy hasn’t changed too much. Nuclear bomb are still always tested by all countries, and efficient energy sources are rare to see cause of money-hungry electricity and gas companies. Such a miserable world

  • @FortoFight
    @FortoFight 4 года назад +225

    I've been programming so much recently and speaking so little that my brain started to agree with the computers on the difficulty of parsing those sentences.

    • @caw25sha
      @caw25sha 4 года назад +43

      if(trophy.size > suitcase.size)
      fit = false;

    • @igorthelight
      @igorthelight 4 года назад +9

      fit = (trophy.size > suitcase.size) ? false

    • @igorthelight
      @igorthelight 4 года назад

      @m ・ ́ω・ Great news!

    • @mistyz0ne
      @mistyz0ne 4 года назад +3

      public boolean fits(Trophy trophy, Suitcase suitcase){
      return ( trophy.getSize() < suitcase.getSize() );
      }

    • @nadadada3938
      @nadadada3938 4 года назад +2

      @@igorthelight using an incomplete ternary operation? Also redundancy ternary operation

  • @lolcatjpeg
    @lolcatjpeg 2 года назад +899

    Tom: artificial language processing remains ten years away
    GPT-3: hold my beer

    • @DiggyPT
      @DiggyPT Год назад +135

      GPT-4: hold my beer

    • @IsYitzach
      @IsYitzach Год назад +10

      @@resyntax Yes, but on a sample size of one, it was correct. I almost said it was well reasoned, but it claimed to have done it off the sentence structure.

    • @Igrium
      @Igrium Год назад +39

      @@resyntax and what humans do is not bullshitting?

    • @sabakobakhidze9745
      @sabakobakhidze9745 Год назад +27

      @@DiggyPT GPT-5: Actually hands you the beer

    • @jacksonlaframboise6257
      @jacksonlaframboise6257 Год назад +25

      GPT-6. Discovers a new way to make the perfect beer, sets up a business, codes a flawless website, gets legally set up in a few small local areas, gains funding from investors, expands and gradually takes over the entire beer industry.

  • @JohannesBrodwall
    @JohannesBrodwall 4 года назад +4425

    "Time flies like an arrow"
    "Fruit flies like an apple"
    When is "like" an adjective or a verb?

    • @sullenskulls9709
      @sullenskulls9709 3 года назад +675

      This comment deserves a Like. (Noun)

    • @cisium1184
      @cisium1184 3 года назад +123

      No, when is like an adverb or a conjunction or a pronoun.

    • @matthewblainey4254
      @matthewblainey4254 3 года назад +302

      oh my lord no not the time flies!

    • @SnoFitzroy
      @SnoFitzroy 3 года назад +29

      It's an adjective when it's in a simile...obviously

    • @nirmalsuki
      @nirmalsuki 3 года назад +73

      "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana" - Groucho Marx

  • @edslushie570
    @edslushie570 3 года назад +1914

    Tom's Friend: Why are you reading lesbian Overwatch fanfiction?
    Tom, who's about to have the idea for this video: Oh, haven't you heard?

    • @ratataran
      @ratataran 3 года назад +7

      The hell is this referring to?

    • @peterprime2140
      @peterprime2140 3 года назад +126

      @@ratataran The video.

    • @qo7052
      @qo7052 3 года назад +23

      @@ratataran You havent heard about the bird?

    • @pinball-wizard
      @pinball-wizard 3 года назад +17

      @@qo7052 BRIAN DON’T

    • @ashtar3876
      @ashtar3876 3 года назад +1

      He's reading it for research brah

  • @arirahikkala
    @arirahikkala 4 года назад +1132

    Hey, I think AI Dungeon's response makes perfect sense here. Just shoot a suitcase enough times and eventually it will fit inside a trophy.

    • @LyricalDJ
      @LyricalDJ 4 года назад +19

      Aha, but even if it might work does that mean it makes sense?

    • @TonboIV
      @TonboIV 4 года назад +133

      Violence can actually solve all problems. You just have to use a lot of violence for some of them.

    • @ineedaname1341
      @ineedaname1341 4 года назад +29

      @@TonboIV *humans*

    • @TonboIV
      @TonboIV 4 года назад +24

      @@ineedaname1341 Nuke all the humans. I didn't say violence was a GOOD solution.

    • @ineedaname1341
      @ineedaname1341 4 года назад +2

      @@TonboIV hahahaha true! Your technically right :-)

  • @ark7541
    @ark7541 5 месяцев назад +9

    It's amazing how far the technology has come in just a few years

  • @DrZaius3141
    @DrZaius3141 4 года назад +1751

    Tom Scott: AI is so stupid.
    2 Minute Papers: What a time to be alive!

    • @omri9325
      @omri9325 4 года назад +14

      So true 😂😂

    • @Someone-cr8cj
      @Someone-cr8cj 4 года назад +1

      Nice

    • @HarriW
      @HarriW 4 года назад +74

      Karloishpfasjoauna is adorable, love him

    • @IronicHavoc
      @IronicHavoc 4 года назад +82

      It's stupid, but getting less stupid at a remarkable rate

    • @thealchemist6355
      @thealchemist6355 4 года назад +20

      @@HarriW Lolz, you just murdered his name.

  • @shingshongshamalama
    @shingshongshamalama 4 года назад +1741

    Human: "Put the suitcase in the trophy."
    AI GM: "You shoot the suitcase."

    • @RFC3514
      @RFC3514 4 года назад +156

      You can tell the AI was trained in the USA.

    • @General12th
      @General12th 4 года назад +87

      If you shoot the suitcase enough, eventually it can fit a trophy.

    • @francoisdecaux1570
      @francoisdecaux1570 4 года назад +3

      @@General12th So true... at least parts of it can cover it, which is the object refered to in the previous sentence.

    • @princessdio3686
      @princessdio3686 4 года назад +4

      Google vs Bing

    • @fukinshin9918
      @fukinshin9918 4 года назад

      @@RFC3514 Damn, beat me to it.

  • @davidpphillips
    @davidpphillips Год назад +30

    Now chatgpt is replying with “If I were human, and assuming both the suitcase and the trophy were appropriately sized and designed for such an interaction, it might be possible to put the suitcase inside the trophy, depending on their respective sizes and shapes. However, it's important to note that such an action would likely be unconventional and not typically done.”

    • @programming5274
      @programming5274 Год назад +4

      Me: ChatGPT wouldn't fit in the mainframe computer, because it was too big. In the previous sentence, what does it refer to?
      ChatGPT: In the previous sentence, the pronoun "it" refers to the mainframe computer.

    • @ratvibe
      @ratvibe 11 месяцев назад

      @@programming5274 It gets this right now, for me at least

  • @zamicedt
    @zamicedt 4 года назад +4657

    "If you're writing a gay romance,"
    Me, who was actually attempted writing a gay romance and encountered this very problem: Ah, yes.

    • @felzzer3943
      @felzzer3943 4 года назад +35

      funny😐

    • @kirbyedible2438
      @kirbyedible2438 4 года назад +269

      a_frog52 people like different things than you, ya don’t need to call someone mentally unstable.

    • @zeeplez
      @zeeplez 4 года назад +16

      @@a_frog529 why cant they?

    • @andrewrichardson3135
      @andrewrichardson3135 4 года назад +1

      KirbyEdible I think that’s the right term

    • @lfocoap4950ajf8
      @lfocoap4950ajf8 4 года назад +16

      whatever you do, do not use epithets

  • @Ellie-yt3op
    @Ellie-yt3op 4 года назад +2941

    Me: ah a smart video on language
    Tom: so, lesbians

    • @natesmodelsdoodles5403
      @natesmodelsdoodles5403 4 года назад +103

      Me: a blonde, a brunette, a skirt... wait, are these those two girls on the oil rig in Pokemon RSE?

    • @WLxMusic
      @WLxMusic 4 года назад +76

      @@natesmodelsdoodles5403 I'mma go look up THomas Scottsburry on wattpad real quick. Mans is definitely speaking from experience.

    • @Abdega
      @Abdega 4 года назад +15

      @@natesmodelsdoodles5403 I don’t remember that part of Gen III…

    • @gaymerjerry
      @gaymerjerry 4 года назад +1

      @@johnathanltablet is this the gen 3 anime i think i missed that episode

    • @shitpost-o-matic7469
      @shitpost-o-matic7469 4 года назад +1

      I h a t e i t

  • @igorwojtyna2158
    @igorwojtyna2158 4 года назад +334

    Me: Puts suitcase in a trophy
    AI: Your actions have refuted the neccesity of your existence

  • @aaron_hlnd
    @aaron_hlnd 8 месяцев назад +29

    "Artificial language processing remains ten years away"
    Well that didn't age well

  • @chrisbandicoot9552
    @chrisbandicoot9552 4 года назад +1258

    AI is still crap, especially the voice recognition. I was reminded of that when I played a quiz with one a few months ago.
    Alexa: What do you fire from a bow?
    Me: Arrows
    Alexa:...
    Alexa: A rose is incorrect. The correct answer is "An arrow".

    • @kusaisama
      @kusaisama 3 года назад +133

      Yeh my mom has SIRI it's hilarious like that.
      Here's an example.
      "SIRI order from Papa john's."
      I heard you say 'or more front maya Jones' is that right???
      "No! I said 'Papa johns! "
      Sorry I don't understand that.
      "I SAID NO!!! "

    • @romxxii
      @romxxii 3 года назад +81

      @@kusaisama Google's no better. Even with a full decade of voice recognition samples, it sometimes can't recognize a simple command like "set an alarm for 5 am".

    • @avrahamishshalom1799
      @avrahamishshalom1799 3 года назад +17

      @@romxxii Bells ringing at 5am at local firehouse

    • @georgeofhamilton
      @georgeofhamilton 3 года назад +7

      Trick question-one doesn’t fire anything from bows.

    • @ultimatedude5686
      @ultimatedude5686 3 года назад

      @@georgeofhamilton What?

  • @retroforager
    @retroforager 4 года назад +372

    tom: "put a suitcase in a trophy"
    AI: *contemplates suicide*

  • @emmacampbell3075
    @emmacampbell3075 4 года назад +1327

    Tom intellectually discussing lesbian slash fiction is the highlight of my day

    • @ravendangernavy3575
      @ravendangernavy3575 4 года назад +49

      I want to read more lesbian slash fiction I've had terrible experience with it haha

    • @aurelia8028
      @aurelia8028 4 года назад +15

      Eeh it seemed kinda inappropiate, force and out of place to me

    • @katacutie
      @katacutie 4 года назад +87

      @@aurelia8028 What are you even talking about?

    • @woodfur00
      @woodfur00 4 года назад +126

      Magnus Juul Ask yourself if you would have a single problem with Tom discussing straight romance fiction
      And then, if it's not too much to ask, reevaluate your life choices

    • @delta-76
      @delta-76 4 года назад +7

      Magnus Juul how so?

  • @Lu-zu1jg
    @Lu-zu1jg Год назад +66

    Tried this test with ChatGPT, although a little altered. I asked, "The ball doesn't fit in the box because it is too small." ChatGPT responded, "The word 'it' refers to the ball. The sentence means that the ball is too small to fit inside the box, which is the reason why it doesn't fit."
    As a software engineer, this gives a little bit of hope that my job is still safe. A little.

    • @egg.007
      @egg.007 Год назад +5

      Well i said to it, it was wrong so it corrected it and told me that it was wrong because the box was too small to accommodate the ball . Here it kinda understood its mistake. This shows how smart its learning is

    • @aspol12
      @aspol12 Год назад +4

      maybe it interpreted "fit" as in "fit snugly", in which case the ball being too small would in fact make the sentence true

    • @oromain
      @oromain Год назад +7

      Ah yep. This same example of yours trumped it on my end too. Perhaps it's trained on the examples Tom mentioned but not new ones.
      -In the sentence "The ball doesn't fit in the box because it is too small.", what is the word "it" referring to?
      -In the sentence "The ball doesn't fit in the box because it is too small," the word "it" is referring to the ball.
      -Why would a small ball have trouble fitting in a box?
      -A small ball might have trouble fitting in a box if the box is not large enough to accommodate the ball. Alternatively, the opening of the box might be too small to allow the ball to pass through. It also depends on the size of the ball and the size of the box.
      -Doesn't this mean "it" refers to the box then?
      -Yes, you are correct. In the given sentence, "it" refers to the box, which is too small to fit the ball. I apologize for the confusion in my previous response.

    • @mustafasiddiqui8203
      @mustafasiddiqui8203 Год назад

      Did u ask gpt 4?

    • @Sgrunterundt
      @Sgrunterundt Год назад +5

      @@mustafasiddiqui8203 I did. It passes with flying colors.

  • @CarthagoMike
    @CarthagoMike 4 года назад +556

    "Hey Google, did the trophy not fit in the brown suitcase because it was too big?"
    perfect question to heat up the room on a cold evening.

    • @SillyMakesVids
      @SillyMakesVids 4 года назад +16

      Ask her why you want dry leaves in boiling water.

    • @LARAUJO_0
      @LARAUJO_0 4 года назад +3

      No it's because the brown suitcase didn't have any brown suits in it

    • @Semudara
      @Semudara 4 года назад

      Does not compute, does not compute, system shutdown!!

    • @litapd311
      @litapd311 4 года назад

      google proceeds to blown up you phone

    • @mistyz0ne
      @mistyz0ne 4 года назад

      "here's what I found on the web"

  • @rachelahrens7478
    @rachelahrens7478 4 года назад +825

    So what you’re saying is that...artificial intelligence will never understand gay fan-fiction!?!

    • @personita2.733
      @personita2.733 4 года назад +78

      So , _all AI is homophobic_

    • @ImNot
      @ImNot 4 года назад +7

      @@personita2.733 seems fine to me ngl

    • @neerjain9618
      @neerjain9618 4 года назад +3

      artificial intelligence is useless.

    • @vrennexx3736
      @vrennexx3736 4 года назад +2

      I don't know why computers would want that... It's of no use to them😅
      Gayvatron vs Lesbos Prime

    • @arcanine_enjoyer
      @arcanine_enjoyer 4 года назад +7

      @@personita2.733 yes it is. trust me, if you do anything gay in AI Dungeon it becomes homophobic quick

  • @tielessin
    @tielessin Месяц назад +7

    It's crazy how much this has changed in just 4 years

  • @ShaunCheah
    @ShaunCheah 4 года назад +2421

    "Larger things can't fit inside smaller things." - Tom Scott, issuing a challenge to all bottoms.

  • @icemazz
    @icemazz 4 года назад +825

    "we've got experience, of trophies"
    😥

    • @jcxz983
      @jcxz983 4 года назад +14

      Awwwwwww..........................................................

    • @otakuribo
      @otakuribo 4 года назад +66

      🏆
      I present you with the Doing Your Best award

    • @maxximumb
      @maxximumb 4 года назад +20

      Not winning a trophy is experience of a trophy. Not a good trophy eperience admittedly, but enough for the suitcase conjuncture.

    • @Kadekuru
      @Kadekuru 4 года назад

      Cheer up!

    • @kevmmm
      @kevmmm 4 года назад +3

      Go buy yourself one, that might just make it worse tbh

  • @HeidiBird
    @HeidiBird 3 года назад +238

    I LOVED how you pulled in slash fanfiction to demonstrate!!! This is indeed a problem (inexperienced) authors frequently struggle with, and you are right: synecdoches are awkward to read. The solution I have discovered (when careful sentence construction can't solve the issue): use names! The rule about trying to avoid repetition in your vocabulary can be applied with more leniency in this case, and if the writing is good, the scene will come to life so perfectly that clarification is not always needed anyway.
    That said, I object to slash fiction authors being called amateur in general - though there are, as you point out, significant differences in skill level.

  • @TheAmyrlinSeat
    @TheAmyrlinSeat Год назад +37

    Both Bard and ChatGPT have no problems with these sentences now. Would be interesting to see a sequel about them.

    • @redstonerelic
      @redstonerelic 11 месяцев назад +2

      My:
      Can you tell me what the following sentence is trying to say:
      The trophy would not fit in the suitcase because it was too big.
      ChatGPT:
      This sentence is explaining that the trophy couldn't be placed inside the suitcase due to its size

    • @TheAmyrlinSeat
      @TheAmyrlinSeat 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@redstonerelic Interesting, doesn't specify which object is too large.

    • @Stratelier
      @Stratelier 8 месяцев назад

      I believe CGP Grey did a video on this subject that aged much better? Its hypothetical example is a bot trained to sort images between "bee" and "dog" -- which after an iterative training process it can (and quite efficiently), only to get tripped up by a photo of a dog in a bee costume.

    • @pamdrayer5648
      @pamdrayer5648 Месяц назад

      Me: The trophy would not fit in the suitcase because it was too big.
      ChatGPT: This sentence is an example of a classic ambiguity problem often used in linguistics. The pronoun "it" could refer to either the "trophy" or the "suitcase," leading to two interpretations:
      The trophy was too big to fit in the suitcase.
      The suitcase was too big to hold the trophy.
      However, most people intuitively assume that the trophy is too big because it aligns better with common sense expectations (trophies are usually large and suitcases are typically for storing things).
      Do you enjoy exploring these types of linguistic puzzles?

  • @Linkz64
    @Linkz64 4 года назад +718

    This was unlisted for a month Tom, how dare you keep this from me.

    • @lolmaker777
      @lolmaker777 4 года назад +23

      Upload schedule

    • @onepcwhiz
      @onepcwhiz 4 года назад +6

      Are you a patron?

    • @IM4plebz
      @IM4plebz 4 года назад +20

      @@onepcwhiz I believe that they looked at the date of Tom's comment

    • @onepcwhiz
      @onepcwhiz 4 года назад +3

      @@IM4plebz oh.. well I know that some channels release videos earlier for patrons who support the channel. :-)

    • @lchn12345678
      @lchn12345678 4 года назад +2

      how do u know if a video has been unlisted for an amoubt of time?

  • @xristoss.2037
    @xristoss.2037 4 года назад +985

    "If you re writing a gay romance story"
    Well...that escalated quickly

  • @RileyTheLongboarder
    @RileyTheLongboarder 4 года назад +558

    2020 was not the year I expected to hear about the grammatical intricacies of lesbian slash fiction from Tom.
    I'm not complaining because he's 100% bang on, but still. Huh.

    • @domuuuuu
      @domuuuuu 4 года назад +26

      Bang on.

    • @greensteve9307
      @greensteve9307 4 года назад +3

      @@domuuuuu No pun intended?

    • @domuuuuu
      @domuuuuu 4 года назад +3

      @@greensteve9307 No. Pun intended. Or not. Who am I to say?

    • @satyris410
      @satyris410 4 года назад

      You're @@domuuuuu

    • @domuuuuu
      @domuuuuu 4 года назад

      @@satyris410 I'm not OP though

  • @Skanerio
    @Skanerio 11 дней назад +7

    it's genuinely crazy how only 4 years ago the concept of AI was so far from reality

  • @txt5220
    @txt5220 4 года назад +147

    AI Dungeons is hilarious. Everyone should try it and see what insane requests and actions the AI will take.

    • @apocalypticblox2346
      @apocalypticblox2346 3 года назад +23

      Here’s one fault that I experienced with it:
      Mulder: “Scully, if I don’t make it out of here alive, please feed my fish.”
      Scully: “Mulder, I am not a fish.”
      Mulder: “Scully, I said that you should feed my fish if I die here, not that you are a fish. What’re you smoking!”
      Scully: “Nothing, Mulder.”

    • @ruler_of_everything
      @ruler_of_everything 3 года назад +3

      hint: literally anything

  • @reallyWyrd
    @reallyWyrd 4 года назад +355

    "Artificial language processing remains just ten years away -- just as it has for the last few decades."

    • @Anvilshock
      @Anvilshock 3 года назад +3

      It will be launched with the James Webb Telescope.

    • @ano_nym
      @ano_nym 3 года назад +5

      Fusion reactors are just 20 years away, never thought we would get NLP in just half that time.

    • @danepcarver4951
      @danepcarver4951 3 года назад

      But we will have self driving cars before that.

    • @geeseofcheese
      @geeseofcheese 14 дней назад

      Comment aged like milk

  • @danielseguin5099
    @danielseguin5099 4 года назад +326

    Ah yes, the old "10 years away from being 10 years away"

    • @matthewmcneany
      @matthewmcneany 4 года назад +19

      physicists and comp sci bods only work in orders of magnitude. AI is 10 years away - to one order of magnitude.

    • @Merthalophor
      @Merthalophor 4 года назад +3

      @@matthewmcneany O(10years) amirite rofl

    • @danielseguin5099
      @danielseguin5099 4 года назад +1

      @m ・ ́ω・ add this one under "The Sentences Computers Can't Understand, But I Also Can't"

    • @geeseofcheese
      @geeseofcheese 14 дней назад

      Turned out to be a bit less than 10 years

  • @antediest
    @antediest Год назад +85

    who else is rewatching these with ChatGPT open and stoked with the progrees of large language models in the last few years.

  • @Stevoisiak
    @Stevoisiak 4 года назад +233

    Solving The Winograd Schema by shooting the suitcase with a gun seems reasonable to me.

    • @arnerademacker8548
      @arnerademacker8548 4 года назад +4

      It's like a modern Gordian Knot.

    • @Nightmster
      @Nightmster 4 года назад

      Hey, at least now there's enough space in the suitcase...

    • @lordofthecats6397
      @lordofthecats6397 4 года назад

      Or aiming a gun at the judges.

    • @oncydium
      @oncydium 4 года назад +1

      Some replicant won't be passing his next Voight-Kampf test I see...

  • @kingdollop-head743
    @kingdollop-head743 4 года назад +238

    So THAT’S why the always say “the blonde did this” etc. in the gay fanfics! I always found it weird

    • @renhey9979
      @renhey9979 4 года назад +1

      Wot

    • @kingdollop-head743
      @kingdollop-head743 4 года назад +27

      Ren Hey They don’t use the names of the characters that often, not the pronouns, they use lots of adjectives

    • @eloujtimereaver4504
      @eloujtimereaver4504 4 года назад +6

      @@kingdollop-head743 It makes me sad that they do not shake it up with relationship indicators and names near as often. Their own, their partners, Tom Scott's etcetera.

    • @0rbeez
      @0rbeez 4 года назад +19

      The amount of times I’ve seen a character referred to by their occupation is astounding

    • @HeidiBird
      @HeidiBird 3 года назад +2

      Only the inexperienced authors ;)

  • @wearethebomb42
    @wearethebomb42 3 года назад +67

    You know, I’ve tried using the AI dungeon recently, apparently a lot of people tried doing the same thing Tom did because the moment i asked it to imagine a suitcase and a trophy it immediately filled in the rest of the problem for me, gave me the correct answer, and twice proudly proclaimed that it knew trophies were made of medal. It was an interesting conversation all round, I asked it if it knew Grice’s Maxims, and not only did it list them but it explained what they were in, what I could tell, were its own words. It also identified times in our conversation when one of the maxims had been violated or flouted, and even stopped to correct me when I accidentally referred to it as “flaunting” a maxim.

  • @craigspaulding9711
    @craigspaulding9711 9 месяцев назад +5

    4 years later, and the main thesis of the video is still *technically* true. It just turns out that it doesn’t matter if computers understand what they’re saying or the relationships between words, they’re just VERY good at cheating and getting it right once they have enough data.

  • @davelewthwaite
    @davelewthwaite 4 года назад +33

    *Oxford comma cries in the corner*
    "I went to the club with the pole-dancers, Tom Scott and Stephen Fry"
    (and a million fanfic writers cried out in joy)

  • @SkeletonSyskey
    @SkeletonSyskey 4 года назад +215

    Reminds me of the sketch that makes use the of sentances:
    Ask how "Old Mrs. Brown" is
    &
    Ask how old "Mrs. Brown" is.

    • @alvallac2171
      @alvallac2171 4 года назад +5

      *sentences

    • @hairyputter5363
      @hairyputter5363 4 года назад +7

      @@alvallac2171 3:45

    • @Kawdek
      @Kawdek 4 года назад

      Does anyone have a link to this sketch?

    • @darkbobblackpants9747
      @darkbobblackpants9747 4 года назад

      SkeletonSyskey Thanks, I hate it

    • @HDFlood_
      @HDFlood_ 4 года назад +4

      Punctuation and capitalisation too
      "I helped my uncle jack off the horse."
      "I helped my uncle, Jack, off the horse."

  • @LarryB-inFL
    @LarryB-inFL 3 года назад +327

    "They are hunting dogs."
    "Why would they do that?"

    • @RGC_animation
      @RGC_animation 3 года назад +7

      They are hunting dogs hunting dogs.

    • @BlackyMox
      @BlackyMox 3 года назад +3

      @@RGC_animation But are they hunting dogs? Or Are they just hunting dogs, hunting dogs, when dogs are hunting dogs?

    • @lionberryofskyclan
      @lionberryofskyclan 3 года назад +2

      they are hunting dogs hunting hunting dogs hunting dogs.

    • @VoidKing666
      @VoidKing666 2 года назад +1

      @@RGC_animation Dog one: RUN AWAY!!! Dog two: I am hunting you- oh no. Human: I WILL GET YOU DOG TWO!!!

  • @cxvxcbcxn
    @cxvxcbcxn 24 дня назад +10

    Scary how far we have come in the last 4 years...

  • @masterpys2693
    @masterpys2693 4 года назад +699

    King Candy: *puts on glasses* "You wouldn't beat a guy with glasses, would you?"
    Ralph: *beats King Candy WITH the glasses*

    • @casymichelle4581
      @casymichelle4581 3 года назад +33

      this is such a good example LMAO

    • @im_fat_boi
      @im_fat_boi 3 года назад +1

      @@casymichelle4581 no it isn't because of use of "with the glasses" is informal and actually not how the English language works.

  • @paracame8162
    @paracame8162 4 года назад +209

    Tom: *puts suitcase in trophy*
    AI: Your free trial of life is over

  • @TsubakiOnYT
    @TsubakiOnYT 3 года назад +470

    "We have experiences of suitcases and trophies"
    Everyone without a trophy:

    • @rainpooper7088
      @rainpooper7088 3 года назад +28

      „And this suitcase is where I‘d put a trophy… *IF I HAD ONE!“*

    • @thatgirlstephanie6023
      @thatgirlstephanie6023 3 года назад +6

      forget about trophies, people have suitcases??

    • @DemonSlayerSucksAss30
      @DemonSlayerSucksAss30 3 года назад

      Do pageant crowns count as trophies?

    • @DannySullivanMusic
      @DannySullivanMusic 3 года назад

      haha!

    • @VoidKing666
      @VoidKing666 2 года назад +1

      “I would put my suitcase in my trophy, once I get a trophy.”
      Tom: Are you okay?

  • @kilroy1964
    @kilroy1964 4 дня назад +9

    We humans tend to underestimate the future.
    This is no exception.

  • @dreamlesssleepart
    @dreamlesssleepart 4 года назад +778

    I sleep: the Winograd Schema
    I wake: gay romance story

    • @GumSkyloard
      @GumSkyloard 4 года назад +31

      I ascend: g a m e s

    • @dawsboss2003
      @dawsboss2003 4 года назад +11

      Your brain knew you needed to know about gay romance stories

    • @shitpost-o-matic7469
      @shitpost-o-matic7469 4 года назад +2

      Welcome to the modern world.

    • @kajojo2399
      @kajojo2399 3 года назад +1

      @@shitpost-o-matic7469 TRUE...
      what have we become...

  • @stephfh
    @stephfh 4 года назад +930

    “Larger things don't fit inside smaller things.“
    _Doctor Who enters the chat_

    • @cas6648
      @cas6648 4 года назад +22

      It’s bigger on the inside!

    • @jamesborck5908
      @jamesborck5908 4 года назад +33

      It’s smaller on the outside

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 4 года назад +45

      The funny thing is that Dr. Who fanfiction might confuse AI into thinking things CAN be bigger on the inside.

    • @calebr7199
      @calebr7199 4 года назад +13

      Hentai enters chat

    • @FionaMu
      @FionaMu 4 года назад +13

      Hermione's handbag enters the chat.

  • @nipixel
    @nipixel 4 года назад +143

    “Put the trophy in the suitcase”
    AI: “Ok. *You kill yourself.*”

  • @Dave-kq7gv
    @Dave-kq7gv Год назад +14

    3 years on, this video has aged like somewhere between milk & wine

  • @H00DEDCR0W
    @H00DEDCR0W 4 года назад +187

    "the police came tae ma door and told me my dugs were chasing people on bikes ma dugs don't even have bikes"

  • @Zyrdalf
    @Zyrdalf 4 года назад +89

    Scott:“What was too big?”
    Me: it!
    Me 2 seconds later after realizing I might be wrong but still not sure why:
    Me 5 seconds later and realizing

    • @jayteegamble
      @jayteegamble 4 года назад +31

      Found the AI

    • @mgm.al3mry
      @mgm.al3mry 4 года назад +3

      @@jayteegamble 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @Wildasd
    @Wildasd 4 года назад +86

    Since I like my job as a translator, I really hope it stays 10 years away for a few more decades. :)

    • @davidtitanium22
      @davidtitanium22 4 года назад +48

      Sadly, as a programmer, my job is to make sure everyone lose their jobs to machines (including myself)

    • @hamizannaruto
      @hamizannaruto 4 года назад +9

      @@davidtitanium22 can't wait for AI to write itself

    • @hamizannaruto
      @hamizannaruto 4 года назад

      @oH well,lord! nah just AI writing another new AI.
      And replacing human, and after that the make more AI and make them their slave
      Until that AI can make its own colony and take down the AI
      Then the cycle continues, as AI make a guild and take down each other.
      They soon come in agreement and decided to have one true Lord as a god, which is a human, but us human is already vanish, and thus there will be atheist AI who does not believe in human god. They continue to grow, make new tech..

    • @TorreFernand
      @TorreFernand 4 года назад +3

      @@davidtitanium22 You'll just become a metaprogrammer at that point

    • @hamizannaruto
      @hamizannaruto 4 года назад

      @oH well,lord! God is just humans who accidentally make AI too intelligent, that we rule over and take down god, and thus we are next to make AI as our slave. The history we learn are just cover up by the elder to make sure we don't know we are actually AI.

  • @daakudaddy5453
    @daakudaddy5453 11 дней назад +10

    Imagine releasing this video right before ChatGPT was released 😂😂😂😂

  • @vxel
    @vxel 4 года назад +353

    0:41 - “And that a trophy usually doesn’t contain things.” Do y’all not drink out of your trophies?

    • @sorrowandsufferin924
      @sorrowandsufferin924 4 года назад +18

      Not a suitcase, you don't. But does a computer know that?

    • @jonmcatee3116
      @jonmcatee3116 4 года назад +24

      Drinking out of a trophy is an absolute alpha move

    • @TheRenegade...
      @TheRenegade... 4 года назад +47

      @@sorrowandsufferin924 You don't drink suitcases?

    • @sorrowandsufferin924
      @sorrowandsufferin924 4 года назад +3

      @;; m&m 's May I give you a trophy for that?

    • @froggyringu
      @froggyringu 3 года назад +5

      Not every trophy is a cup.

  • @obopixel4550
    @obopixel4550 4 года назад +336

    "Computers are missing the breadth of knowledge humans have access to."
    *Me looking something up on google*

    • @JamesMC04
      @JamesMC04 4 года назад

      The funniest post in the thread.

    • @PedroHawk1
      @PedroHawk1 3 года назад +6

      In our AI classes we learn the difference between information and knowledge...

  • @oricalu448
    @oricalu448 4 года назад +394

    Everyone else: meaningful comments
    Me: Ah, so he's a Mei main. Interesting.

  • @2dsystem
    @2dsystem 15 дней назад +10

    watching this 4 years later is kinda wild

  • @derFischy
    @derFischy 4 года назад +198

    I'm so glad Gretchen managed to fit the gay fanfiction problem in one of these videos

    • @DavidRichfield
      @DavidRichfield 4 года назад +45

      Fortunately Gretchen(1) could fit the gay fanfic problem(2) into the video(3) because it(x) was funny.

    • @muche6321
      @muche6321 4 года назад +3

      @@DavidRichfield Interesting. My solution for x is none of the options. Similar to the sentence "The robot(1) put the trophy(2) in the brown suitcase(3) and it(x) was funny."

    • @myidanny
      @myidanny 4 года назад

      I laughed so much when they introduced it(x) in the podcast

    • @adt4864
      @adt4864 4 года назад +2

      @@DavidRichfield i take out my gun.