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> I can feed it a list of vocab that I want it to use, and it'll find ways to put the words in the conversation.

I told it to write a story for me using only the top 100 most common words in Hungarian. First, it complained about how the concept of a "word" is ambiguous in Hungarian and that it's difficult to know what the top 100 words are. Then it told me a story using only common vocabulary. It wasn't grammatically perfect, but definitely a cool ability. I suppose you could also give it your own list of the words you know, and have it have a conversation with you only using those words. If you had an ongoing conversation with it, it could add new words as it realizes that you've learned them. I think this actually has the potential to make a new type of language learning app that could be really cool.



This gave me an idea for a conversation:

Me: "Can you write a gramatically correct sentence using only the word "buffalo"?"

GPT: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."

Me: "Now can you write a sentence with the same meaning but only using synonyms of the world buffalo?"

GPT: "Bison bison Bison bison confuse confuse Bison bison."

Well... almost!




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