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- Sun May 12, 2024 2:53 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: AI in conlanging - present and future
- Replies: 24
- Views: 612
Re: AI in conlanging - present and future
You’re quite right. I assumed the figure came from training corpus plus input from other AIs plus interactions with users, but didn’t interrogate that particularly well. Here’s ChatGPT’s explanation: User Hi. I am interested in your training corpus. Please could you roughly estimate its total size i...
- Fri May 10, 2024 3:00 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 717081
Re: Happy things thread!
I received my copy of The Philosophy Graduate’s Fallacy and other essays (by Raphael Landeck, ed. Mark Rosenfelder) yesterday and am really enjoying it!zompist wrote:in a rather lovely editionRaphael wrote: a really interesting collection of essays
- Fri May 10, 2024 2:31 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The voice of the dead: AI chat sharing thread
- Replies: 10
- Views: 297
Re: The voice of the dead: AI chat sharing thread
AI is good when no one wants to talk about what i wanna talk about I agree with that... My own response is... It’s not bad as a therapeutic tool, for some applications. I have ADHD and have been without my meds since December because of a medication supply shortage. I have talked to it sometimes wh...
- Fri May 10, 2024 2:12 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The voice of the dead: AI chat sharing thread
- Replies: 10
- Views: 297
Re: The voice of the dead: AI chat sharing thread
Of course not. How could they be?
I think that’s subjective.
In my interest in this area, personally, I’m not looking for originality.
I used to maintain this blog. Its About the Work and About thr Author pages explain my interest faily well.
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:05 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Challenge: American English as a separate language
- Replies: 30
- Views: 794
Re: Challenge: American English as a separate language
...and that I would have no expectation that a Brit would readily understand my own speech unless I was deliberately approximating GA... Curious... Any audio clips? I will say that we are pretty used to most varieties of American speech over here. We have a lot of your TV. On your general point, I ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 2:40 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The voice of the dead: AI chat sharing thread
- Replies: 10
- Views: 297
Re: The voice of the dead: AI chat sharing thread
Thoughts? Interesting that is was relatively adept at that exercise. On ‘magical’, I’ve noticed that whenever I talk about conlangs or any concept which is potentially fantasy-adjacent, ChatGPT seems to like to throw in more and more fantasy terms to its responses until I challenge it / ask it not ...
- Wed May 08, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: English 'not' migration
- Replies: 8
- Views: 471
Re: English 'not' migration
I think there could be some sociolinguistic shifting gently underway behind Jonlang’s observation: it seems to me it’s potentially becoming more common to hear and produce constructions like “I just wanna like... not go” (without particular emphasis on the ‘not’). With familiarity, variations of thi...
- Wed May 08, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2694
- Views: 276961
Re: Word evolution game
Backing and unrounding of front rounded vowels [w] > [ɥ] after [ɯ] Minor orthographic reform ['cɯː.pɔjs] ciúpoys "( to a woman of higher rank than oneself ) Mrs., Ms.; ( of judges, justices ) your honour" ['jɤɯ.ɥɔ] iúcha "( archaising ) madam, ma'am; ( in fantasy literature ) madam, l...
- Wed May 08, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The voice of the dead: AI chat sharing thread
- Replies: 10
- Views: 297
Re: The voice of the dead: AI chat sharing thread
Interesting points! I asked it what it thought. Your friend has made some insightful observations about how I work. Let me break it down: 1. **Understanding Conversations:** You're correct that I've been extensively trained on conversational data, so I can engage in discussions like these. My traini...
- Wed May 08, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The voice of the dead: AI chat sharing thread
- Replies: 10
- Views: 297
The voice of the dead: AI chat sharing thread
Motivated by discussions here, I spent a while ‘talking’ with ChatGPT today, and thought I’d share some of the ground that got covered. Feel free to do the same. Snippet 1: the voice of the dead User You speak with the voice of the dead ChatGPT That sounds intriguing. What do you mean by speaking wi...
- Wed May 08, 2024 11:11 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Word evolution game
- Replies: 2694
- Views: 276961
Re: Word evolution game
Loss of unstressed [ i] after alveo-palatals [a] > [ɔ] after labials Assignment of stress to long vowels ['cyː.bɔɕ] ciúwosy "( to a woman of higher rank than oneself ) Mrs., Ms.; ( of judges, justices ) your honour" ['yː.wɔ] úicha "( archaising ) madam, ma'am; ( in fantasy literature ...
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The perception of rhythm in language
- Replies: 15
- Views: 357
Re: The perception of rhythm in language
I have the feeling that strong and clear segmentation might be an artifact of writing as opposed to something speakers "are doing under the hood", mostly cause people who are otherwise able to speak normally and functionally segment "incorrectly" in writing all the time. just to...
- Tue May 07, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The perception of rhythm in language
- Replies: 15
- Views: 357
Re: The perception of rhythm in language
The 13 Clocks This is possibly my favourite book! I have a suite of piano pieces I wrote inspired by it. Sadly largely unnotated and unfinished. I just found a draft recording I did of it nearly 10 years ago. I reallllly need to finish this piece... If anyone wants some escapism, and faulty but wel...
- Tue May 07, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The perception of rhythm in language
- Replies: 15
- Views: 357
Re: The perception of rhythm in language
I’m curious how many people noticed that this paper… …is itself a great example of some prose in metric time? For it’s plain to see its rhythm is trochaic octameter, with the end of every sentence counting as a final rhyme. (Obviously alice has, but anyone else? If you haven’t, don’t spoil it by ex...
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The perception of rhythm in language
- Replies: 15
- Views: 357
Re: The perception of rhythm in language
My gut reaction is that while this is generally correct, it is a little overblown, in that I’d wager that phrase-level pitch contour has at least as much to do with segmentation as rhythm.
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:12 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: AI in conlanging - present and future
- Replies: 24
- Views: 612
Re: AI in conlanging - present and future
It didn't occur me to try that, but that's pretty impressive! Interestingly, I tried to repeat the exercise today, and it produced strings like ‘ekëzäm ziëk lämec ö terfihal’ ‒ phonotactically pretty good, and it sort of looks the part. But the only in any way ‘correct’ word it could produce was ‘d...
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: AI in conlanging - present and future
- Replies: 24
- Views: 612
Re: AI in conlanging - present and future
I'm surprised there is enough stuff about conlanging out there that ChatGPT actually knows about it :) ChatGPT can, when pushed quite hard, speak really really bad Verdurian straight out of the box. I got it to tell me about Verdurian, which it could do quite well, and then insisted that for the re...
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: AI in conlanging - present and future
- Replies: 24
- Views: 612
Re: AI in conlanging - present and future
and what's the point of talking about, or being interested in, the worldview of an average simulated human being, when the world is literally teeming with unique and original minds... I’m quite interested in what AI have to say. They’re not, at all, the same thing as an average simulated human bein...
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What are the phonotactics rules for Classical Latin?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1138
Re: What are the phonotactics rules for Classical Latin?
My guess is that /s/ (and other fricatives) are common as syllable- (or word-) margins due to their audibility. For /s/, at least, since it involves just the front of the tongue, it’s pretty easy to combine articulatorily with labials or dorsal, at least. An interesting example of fricatives as syl...
- Thu May 02, 2024 5:58 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Experiencer"
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4771
Re: "Experiencer"
I rarely ever agree with xxx, but they have a point there. Natural languages were created by human beings, after all, so you could interpret them as a form of collaborative conlangs. I think there’s a fundamental and very important difference: natural languages have evolved under the process of nor...