For the past month, I've been buried in Archive.org to collect data for an alumni article I'm writing up. The historical figures I'm researching seem to have 'come to life' for me based on their own writing and how others described them. I'm pretty much convinced that with a large enough corpus, we'll be able to have a decent conversation with historical figures, ask questions, etc. For anyone participating in social media since 2010, we'll likely be able to interview their digital "ghost" in the not-to-far future for all sorts of insights - maybe even for clues in solving crimes. If they have a large enough audio and/or video presence, we'll be able to see them and hear their own voice as well.
And here is the response generated by GPT-3:<p><i>This is a fictional but realistic interview with Leonardo Da Vinci based on his notebooks, and the biography by Walter Isaacson. His responses are either based on his writings, or research by Isaacson.</i><p>DKB: Did you struggle with perfectionism?<p>Leonardo: I sought perfection in everything I did, whether it was my art, my science, or my personal relationships. I was never satisfied with anything that I created, and always strived to improve upon it. This desire for perfection sometimes led to frustration, as I would often spend hours – even days – perfecting a single work, only to scrap it and start again if it didn’t meet my standards. But I believe that it was this striving for perfection that made me the renowned artist and scientist that I am today.
This is fantastic, please keep up the series. I've been enjoying it immensely.<p>Previously:<p>* Interview with Seneca (<a href="https://dkb.show/post/life-is-not-short" rel="nofollow">https://dkb.show/post/life-is-not-short</a>)<p>* Interview with Marcus Aurelius (<a href="https://dkb.show/post/marcus-aurelius" rel="nofollow">https://dkb.show/post/marcus-aurelius</a>)
I fall down the rabbit hole too. My wife says it's ADD. My manager calls it getting off into the weeds and makes a point of saying "we don't want to go there" during group meetings. So I do it on my own time and discover weird things about our tools & data.
There were a few episodes of Star Trek Voyager that involved a holographic version of LdV. Not sure if this was at all based on any historical records or just on Roddenberry et al.'s imagination... I'd guess both.
Are these fictional interviews done by a human or GPT-3?<p>Can't find any information on the website but based on the footnotes it seems they are created thoroughly by a human, which is an exceptional display of human creativity!