What's Rhyming News?
With the advent of Large Language Models comes questions from all sides about their true abilities. Can AI really write stunning legal manifestos that would put lawyers out of business? Or interpret data and produce medical outputs in a way that puts doctors to shame? When the Industrial Revolution took the world by storm, people reassured themselves that clanking hulks of metal couldn't very well think, and that their place in the world was still known, just one that involved a lot less physical labor of the most tedious kind.
It is quite possible a new revolution is coming, and that this time, it will be far more difficult for people to reassert their place, as it were, in society. As humans, we have espoused for centuries the uniqueness of human creativity. That sacred flame of endeavor and exploration, the unseizable aspect within the soul that compelled us to sing, and dance, and draw and paint and speak and craft. The chief concern of many people is that this flame is not as sacred, not as unique, as we had always held it to be. Has, or will, AI become capable of wielding this torch for itself?
The logic is simple. To track the growth of something, one ought to check it at a timely interval. But fully comprehending what updates have been pushed forward and how the models have grown might not be easy in a singular iteration. Therefore, we should check it every day. We wanted to see how the artistic capabilities of language models would develop on a more long-term scale. We also wanted to make the data interesting to read, something anyone could pick up.
Thus, every day, we pick a news story, and ask a model to write a poem about it.
Whether you're an artist and want to pick up some inspiration, someone concerned with the rise of AI but unsure of any good way of tracking its growth, a developer curious about what your most recent update might have changed for the better or worse, or just really wanted to catch up on the big news story of the day, you've come to the right place, and we're glad to have you.
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~ Aarush Joshi
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