[ExI] India and the periodic table

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of Gadersd via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] India and the periodic table

>>... Prediction: both China and India will reverse course in the foreseeable future.

>...The Chinese government loves power too much to let itself be left in the dust. Be prepared for Communist Censorship Chatbots to take the stage...


Perhaps some GPT hipsters can educate me please.

It wouldn't be so much censorship as it is choosing the training material.  So if the commies only let the chatbot read commie input material, then no censorship would be required, ja?  As in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four, it was impossible to criticize the government in Newspeak because there was no available vocabulary from which to do so, given that subset of English.

This is the part I don't know and invite wise counsel.  If a chatbot is trained only on one very limited text, then only the words found in that text will be in the generated answer?  If I train a chatbot using only the 300 words in the Dr. Seuss classic Green Eggs and Ham, then I can only get answers with those 300 words?  And the GE&H-bot will have a complete dictionary with every word defined in terms of the 300 GE&H words?  If so, then any answers would not make a lot of sense.  Everything would be in a boat with a goat, or on a train in the rain, but nothing outside of that?

If I made my own GE&H-bot and asked it a question about plasma physics, its own dictionary would define plasma as something like train of rain?  Then give an obviously silly answer a 3 yr old child could understand as well as we do?

Reason I asked: if someone were to create a Bible-bot with input consisting only of a bible and a few dozen commentaries on that collection of books, would that generate actual text sounding like the bible?  If so, could we generate something like the Book of Mormon?  If so, could not we make a cubic buttload of money off of that?

spike