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/
New River in Bowes Park image by Nick Cooper on Wikimedia Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_River_Bowes_Park.jpg
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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.
More virtual gameshows! You're practically a genius when it comes to gameshow design.
Whoah, I'm gonna need a full video on that amazing beach and the sounds it makes.
Can you do a video on the HMS Resolution?
I want to believe this is meta and this video is exactly what the AI determined would be the best idea for a video
@4:46: The Netherlands has a town called Groningen which has synchronized bicycle traffic lights. It was part of a major overhaul of the city, turning it into an anti-car and pro-bicycle town. I guess you could argue synchronized traffic lights saved Groningen?
Is this how conspiracy theories are made?
tom somehow explains ideas and examples better than any of my teachers
Maybe the cliff that refuses to be a cliff is a cliff that due to mesurement convention changes became a mountain in some states.
I would enjoy you doing some material on the park and ride system.
Ohhh!! Please, please, do a series of videos scripted by AI and make them look like real stories! It'd be fun to watch and also see how believable we could make the AI with little help :D
So many of these false (but sensible) suggestions sound like they'd be found in Night Vale
I have an idea of the nonexistent nostalgia, it's nonstalgia
Imagine the amount of novel someone could write with all those idea 😂
"The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" - that sounds *exactly* like a video title of yours.
Dying to see a video of the lesser-known British moon landings
if you personify Ai as a tolder it helps
Wigan pier is not in the West Midlands; it's in WIGAN!
I want to see Avebury remade! :)
Plot twist, the AI made this video
Ah yes, an island with gravity defying vertical mountain
Was the village invisible when it was lost? "The Lost Village of Lofthouse That's Now Invisible" sounds like it was lost and then became invisible for unrelated reasons.
“Jeremy Clarkson’s lottery of death” - Internet - Do your thing, make this happen!
Oh my god! I laughed so hard when the AI made up an interview about you 😂😂
These are perfect for SCP titles
The AI can be an SPC *dundundund*
Plot twist the AI is made in the parallel universe
Hi Tom as a spokesperson and guru for the great unwashed, what are your thoughts on the Covid-19 Passport and the possibility of Mandatory Vaccination ? Stay Safe
What we need now is the Scott Thomas Channel, covering all these alternate reality topics with absolute sincerity.
I wish I knew a beach where you could hear the sea
Did you ever do a video on the village of Derwent, which is now at the bottom of a reservoir? I would have thought that ideal for your channel, but cant find it through searches.
Next stop, having it generate conversation so you can feel like you're actually talking with someone (and I know the perfect guy to do that for..🥺)
Jesus, that Lofthouse bit at the end was unexpected. And funny.
There's no white cube at the end of the world? Someone should fix that.
Desiderium
The most deadly lottery... in the world
That's exactly what the Russians want you to think
Bot that gives good ideas: *exists* Michael Reeves: *I'll take your entire stock*
‘The road that is also a boat’ Isn’t that just a ferry?
I love seeing people do cool things with AIs like GPT and this has to be my new favorite. A very good video.
Wt f is the video
Why. Is this tom scott comment section on a Danganronpa video
What you've done there isn't 'use an AI to generate video titles'. I believe the correct term is 'Tom Scott does interdimentional cable'.
"The white cube at the end of the world"? Sounds like an idea for a "modern artist" in Tierra del Fuego....
Another interesting video idea: the stop lights on the road to Zermatt, Switzerland. Not for traffic, mind you, but for avalanches. There is a phased array radar that detects snow movement on the mountain and automatically stops traffic.
5:05 That's just the moon when you take a picture of it on your phone
"A Russian utopia in east Yorkshire" COMRADES
"Nostalgia for a future that never existed" search up sovietwave music. Really interesting stuff and a touching notion.
I was so excited to get access to GPT3 for my research. It is a beast!
Have you ever looked at doing one on Calum's Rd on the Isle of Skye?
I've heard the word sehnsucht, used to describe the feeling of nostalgia of something that never existed. Its a German word that describes "longing and nostalgia for a far-off home one has never visited"
Over computerphile Rob Miles interpreted the GPT 3 paper and the general conclusion is that we're not close to tapering off in regard to language models: if we can throw more compute into a model, it's expected to improve further, in a manner that can be described as linear.
"Jeremy Clarkson's lottery of death" - well, make it "Richard Hammond's lottery of death" and you have the alternate title for "The Grand Tour".
Ah yes, OpenAI. The thing that thousand of weird people use to make stories based on their degenerate fetishes.
A.N.N.E. is a protocol standard for storing various data on-chain via OP return (and later op pushdata). It loosely emulates the human brain in that its basic building block is a neuron and those neurons interconnect to form circuits. Using the standard creates a “relon”. A relon is a conceptually encoded standardized indexed triplet. Everything and anything can be encoded with ANNE by breaking it down into its most basic concepts and wiring them back together as a circuit.
That face, when an AI could do fiction better than you
Honestly, 'The beach where you can hear the sea' sounds like a video with some very interesting twist :)
real is cool and all, but having a tom scott video abput the white cube at then end of the earth would be kind of better
5:04 "The strange light that floats over-" wait a minute, thats the moon!
"There was no Russian utopia!" That sounds EXACTLY what a Russian utopia would like you to believe! agreed!
How about "The strange migrating pattern of seahorses" ?
"The long forgotten history of the British moon landing" *BRITANIA RULES THE WAVES INTENSIFIES*
Your job wont just become easier, it will become extinct.
Tom, chill out :)
Where is the end of the world, and how big a kickstarter campaign would you need to build a white cube there? The south pole seems like a good bet, but you could make an argument for Tristan da Cunha. I like the idea of you starting to make interesting places just so you can make videos about them, like that crimestoppers presenter who went on a killing spree.
"The British Road That Is Also A Boat" The Newport Transporter Bridge you covered a while back has a section that cars drive onto (like a road) but which is called a gondola (like a boat). It wouldn't be a good video, but there's almost some good wordplay there.
The theme I've picked up from your videos is "this thing/event and its relation to history and technological development." Obviously it's a lot more broad than just history and technology, but even your videos on present issues seem to be things that will be relevant for those things in the future.
5:24 I’m cracking up because I’ve heard this concept before but it was in Frank Javcee’s “How to Simpsonwave” video
Wierd... people are boring
The commitment to Lofthouse is ridiculous
7:17 Well that's convenient.
What's the ai called
- ok guys, so here’s the famous cliff that refuses to be a cliff. - did you just call me a cliff?!
Fernweh (German) - Feeling homesick for a place you've never been.
A video on why television competitions have to allow free postal entries- when they charge £2+ SMS cost to enter. Why don't they charge the postal people? Or why offer postal at all? Are they forced to?
The lumpy memory clinically boil because lamp holoprosencephaly wink abaft a steady mosque. noiseless, eight snowplow
I like this BBC show! :)
"failed Russian utopia in Yorkshire" lmao that's some quality comedy
Nostalgia for a thing that never existed, is that similar to feelings of nostalgia for a time before you were born?
*Tom Scott in the thumbnail looking like the chicken from Moana*
This video should be titled: "Tom Scott discovers the 'Fiction' genre and wants to switch jobs".
it's great! how about a vacation? if you're not already on vacation - permanently - to make these videos...
This was an epic video! Thank you!
You can make a second channel of all the fictional videos!?!!!?!!
5:22 i suggest scottstalgia
Plot Twist: Tom has been getting his ideas from this service for forever but then the AI told him to do a video on itself.
So, That's the "Kirby's Dream Land" all the kids were talking about...
I prefer the AI content. Reality is irrelevant.
The gravity defying mountain sounds like a type of cliff that confused geologists because through the calculations, the rock should have slipped or broken off and their not sure why it hasn't
The closest word to what you were asking for is the word Anemoia. Which means to feel nostalgia for a time you've never known or lived in.
What actually makes a Tom Scott video? I think it's just things about things. I mean looking at Scott's old stuff from 7 years ago, it's... interesting. Maybe the secret is visual facts for people who appreciate the little known things that assist humans in everyday life. Or inventions, or...well, anything.
5:22 lostalgia
What do you mean you had to turn it down, it was perfect with "Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death"! Frankly at times Top Gear seemed like a death lottery for them with some of their ideas
A video about trying to find the subject for a video? Freaking brilliant! You still taught us new things.
Well it's not just a cheap-thougt correlation between people getting dumber (resulting in more astouned or facinated watchers or consumers) thinking the robot stuff must have improved. Also there seems to be way to much stuff in the internet (which often isn't well re-viewed oder "remastered" though). I'd improve a lot of data strings (or what you'd call them) but who would tolerate calming dry logic, simple "dull" truth? Take a look at wikipedia, where 90% of "alternative data" isn't tolerated by faint-coloured thinking dominators. And reporters and journalists are getting mentally aimed on when they post an assumption. Why don't they add some words like "this is beta information, we are only 92 percent sure". Some consuming people would like and enjoy to handicraft. Most men would need to. We get enough ' that stuff. Modern perfection won't properly breathe. But who "sinks down to my level" anyway...
What on earth, this is amazing
I want to watch Clarkson’s lottery of death tho
Imagine being so interesting that a video about yourself running out of ideas for videos is still interesting
Anemoia is nistalgia for a time youve bever known, i thinks its applicable
Your job will get a lot easier, but only to the point where the AI can also create a person from scratch that tells the story for you in a fictonal world it generated. Novels will be written by AI and I don't know if I like it.
There was that bizarrely square iceberg back in 2018, so "The White Cube at the End of the World" isn't so much an impossible thing as it is one that was missed.
5:22 There is a german word "sehnsucht" which describes this feeling. Its direct meaning as a "longing and nostalgia for a far-off home one has never visited," :)
I can imagine you making a video called the only beach where you can hear the sea and the video reveals that all the beaches are technically 1 or that the sea isn't the sea
Best one for me was about the long forgotten British Moon Landings?!!!!
I don't even think it's spooky or new. Just better than previous renditions. People have been using this tech for a while now and it's sometimes difficult to spot.