{"id":143679,"date":"2022-08-06T04:23:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/how-gpt-3-wrote-a-movie-about-a-cockroach-ai-love-story"},"modified":"2022-08-06T04:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:23:33","slug":"how-gpt-3-wrote-a-movie-about-a-cockroach-ai-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/how-gpt-3-wrote-a-movie-about-a-cockroach-ai-love-story","title":{"rendered":"How GPT-3 Wrote a Movie About a Cockroach-AI Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In artist Miao Ying\u2019s animated film Surplus Intelligence<\/em>, a cockroach falls in love with the artificial intelligence responsible for monitoring her behavior. There\u2019s only one problem: The AI, personified as a man with movie-star looks, committed a crime in Walden XII, the quasi-medieval fantasyland where the story is set. He stole the village\u2019s power stone, and so the roach sets off to mine bitcoin to save him.<\/p>\n

Viewers might see in the plot a metaphor for the conflicted relationship some Chinese people have with social credit scoring<\/a>, which is meant to nudge citizens toward better behavior. Or it could be a nod to the insidious ways social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook condition our behavior and mine us for data. If the tale itself seems a little ridiculous at times, that\u2019s because Miao had a stealth collaborator: the AI text-generating system GPT-3<\/a>, which wrote the script for the film. That power stone in the village? GPT-3 determined that it looks like \u201ca burrito from Mexico,\u201d perhaps a side effect of all the advertising copy GPT-3 has been tasked with writing.<\/p>\n

The half-hour film is on view through the end of the year at the Asia Society in New York as part of the exhibition Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity<\/em><\/a>. \u201cAll of Miao Ying\u2019s work is a satirical look at what digital means in China,\u201d says Barbara Pollack, who curated Mirror Image<\/em> and wrote the book Brand New Art from China<\/em><\/a>. But, she notes, the works also celebrate the creativity the policies inspire in its citizens. Miao\u2019s Hardcore Digital Detox<\/em><\/a> (2018) challenges viewers to experience the internet behind the Great Firewall\u2014and without the filter bubbles that platforms in the East and West impose. Chinternet Plu<\/em>s<\/a> (2016) describes how to brand a \u201ccounterfeit ideology.\u201d And for 2007\u2019s Blind Spot<\/em><\/a>, Miao manually annotated a Chinese dictionary to indicate all of the words that were censored on Google.cn at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In artist Miao Ying\u2019s animated film Surplus Intelligence, a cockroach falls in love with the artificial intelligence responsible for monitoring her behavior. There\u2019s only one problem: The AI, personified as a man with movie-star looks, committed a crime in Walden XII, the quasi-medieval fantasyland where the story is set. He stole the village\u2019s power stone, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1509,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-entertainment","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}