I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good

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I didn't expect this to work so well. • Includes text generated by OpenAI's GPT-3 at my request: https://openai.com • Art by Chris Quay: https://www.chrisquay.com/ • Got an idea for a video? https://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: https://instagram.com/eddie_corg

Articles referenced:
https://doi.org/10.18653/v1%2F2020.findings-emnlp.301
https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2020/10/28/medical-chatbot-openai-gpt3-patient-kill-themselves/
https://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: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_River_Bowes_Park.jpg
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Comments :

Tom Scott . 2 weeks ago

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.

tobuslieven . 31 minutes ago

7:24 If you placed a truth constraint on anything, the whole universe would grind to a halt.

Michael Withington-Walsh . 44 minutes ago

"Kirby's Dream" probably came from the title's of various Kirby games such as "Kirby's Dream Land", "Kirby's Dream Course", "Kirby's Dream Collection" and "Kirby's Return to Dream Land".

The Seed 219! . 57 minutes ago

I clicked only for the Union Jack on the moon.

Anthony Gray . 1 hour ago

The word you're looking for is Anemoia. I dont think it's actually in any dictionary but it's generally accepted that it means "Nostalgia for a time you've never known" The song Midnight City by M83 really gives me these vibes and makes me really understand the meaning of that word.

menderelcapBIG . 2 hours ago

scaryyy

D&MCG Gaming . 3 hours ago

You should use the ones that were not real could be used on April fools

Tulle Rönnmyr . 3 hours ago

Maybe revisit Avebury and some of your earlier videos?

Moon . 4 hours ago

And this is why i believe that 90% of conspiracy-theory comments on youtube are some chinese/russian AI designed to destabalize the western nations. Well believe... Or maybe its more like a soothing thought :O

NestedParenthetical . 5 hours ago

Nostalgia for a thing that never existed, sounds like the William Gibson short story "The Gernsback Continuum"

Electros Industries . 6 hours ago

If anyone wants to try out GPT-3 for themselves you can try AI Dungeon. You can get access to the ‘Griffin’ model for free (limited to 100 actions a day or overcharged to 2000 actions) or pay for the superior ‘Dragon’ model. In the explore section someone has even made a scenario to make up Tom Scott video titles!

SteRDLK . 7 hours ago

Wigan Pier in the West Midlands???

Aquarius . 8 hours ago

do an episode on why the uk is literally just a shitload of farms

Anonymous4045 . 8 hours ago

Came here from mumbo jumbo

Matthew Flanagan . 8 hours ago

I really want to watch Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of death

Lemmymaster,Bas . 10 hours ago

Why is Grian on the moon

TGAM123 . 10 hours ago

The cliff that refuses to be a cliff could be really interesting :D

Forgoten Null . 10 hours ago

"I don't think there's an English word for 'nostalgia for a thing that never existed'" I've got two "My life"

Drops2cents . 11 hours ago

4:12 "How the CIA plotted to kill Castro with explosive C-shells: the strange story of the leader of the Cuban revolution becoming an avid UNIX hacker." :-)

Kirito Dos . 12 hours ago

imagine the Ai asked you to make a video about asking AI for videos ideas , META AF

DudeOnTheInternet . 12 hours ago

What if we had a seperate series where it just consisted of fictional stories? I know someone else suggested this already, but we need this to happen

Light House . 12 hours ago

Wow, I 100% see Rick and Morty writers using that AI.

God . 12 hours ago

Sad, there's nothing "open" about "open"AI

crobtv . 13 hours ago

5:04 "the strange light that floats over oxforshire" thats just the moon

Connor Oud . 13 hours ago

The Green Death and the Industrial Revolution does sound like a Doctor Who story, it'd likely be a two-parter.

HoodieSticks . 14 hours ago

7:09 Car passes by with perfect timing

timothyp873 . 14 hours ago

The White Cube at The End of the World sounds like a novel by Ursula K. Leguin.

MrLunithy . 15 hours ago

Google stadia anyone .... in a nutshell machine learning>>>!

Armadeus . 16 hours ago

"specific and very limited ways" is this a jab at something political tom? ;)

Takito Loko . 16 hours ago

7:47 "my job will get a lot easier" bud I think your job will get automated rather

Cody Nemo . 16 hours ago

I wanna know about Wiga Pier, the RRS Discovery, the Aberfan disaster, the New River, and the post office railway. I hope you actually reconsider and try harder to find a narrative hook.

Cody Nemo . 16 hours ago

Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death is something i'd subscribe to Amazon Prime for.

윱윱 . 16 hours ago

What if one of the ideas it gave you for a video was were you talk about ideas that you can’t do in real life cause they’re fictional so you get an animator’s help to show what you wanna show..

Mahkus . 18 hours ago

Ai is going to either destroy or advance the world in less than 10 years

Derp Kid . 19 hours ago

The white cube at the edge of the world sounds like an scp

Barbecue Shoes . 20 hours ago

Wigan is in the North West, not West Midlands. A simple google search would have corrected this.

Spaceexplorer . 20 hours ago

"the strange light that floats over oxfordshire" the moon: am i a joke to you?

JustSomeCringyKid . 21 hours ago

4:49 the ai really reinvented street fighter x tekken

Donald Rivers . 22 hours ago

The road that is also a boat: I-90 floating bridge in Seattle.

Mr !!? . 23 hours ago

Tom be soundin' like Mumbo Jumbo bout to give a Slime Block Tutorial

Ikethepro18 . 23 hours ago

Now it can do my homework!

DJgregBrown . 24 hours ago

The strange light the flow over Oxfordshire could be a work as once a Balloon shaped like a TV style UFO flow over north Oxfordshire and many reported it to fox FM at the time. One of those things I partially remember of FOX FM before they sold out they had good trusty local news but we all now media is now brought and not local on Heart FM which now own them.