I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good
I didn't expect this to work so well. • Includes text generated by OpenAI's GPT-3 at my request: openai.com • Art by Chris Quay: www.chrisquay.com/ • Got an idea for a video? 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: eddie_corg
Articles referenced:
doi.org/10.18653/v1%2F2020.findings-emnlp.301
artificialintelligence-news.com/2020/10/28/medical-chatbot-openai-gpt3-patient-kill-themselves/
thenextweb.com/neural/2021/01/19/gpt-3-is-the-worlds-most-powerful-bigotry-generator-what-should-we-do-about-it/
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Tom Scott
Prije mjesec
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.
A J
Prije dan
The British road that's also a boat- sounds like a ferry that's part of the motorway system. We have a few in the US and Canada.
TheCatGoesRawr
Prije 8 dana
Best of luck
Allen DeWitt
Prije 13 dana
Tom, Nostalgia for a thing that never existed is what Vaporwave is.
thornofnight
Prije 18 dana
Anemoia is almost a good enough word for "nostalgia for a thing that never existed" because if it has never existed, then one can certainly have nostalgia for that thing they never experienced.
Articulated
Prije 18 dana
Hey Tom, there's a town in South Devon called Decoy. There is a local legend that it was built specifically to convince the Luftwaffe to drop bombs on them instead of Plymouth. I was always skeptical, but could be worth a look!
multiple spiders
Prije 5 sati
Kirby’s Dreamland looks different than i remember...
Clarence Innes
Prije 5 sati
I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE WHITE CUBE AT THE END OF THE WORLD.
David Tabner
Prije 13 sati
Of course "The Long Forgotten History of the British Moon Landings" isn't possible. But that is because it's not that they're forgotten, we just don't talk about them; to avoid upsetting the Yanks who arrived a decade later than us and only visited a few times. Greetings from Ipswich-in-Crater, The Moon. How is life on Earth these days?
Talitha Jane White
Prije 16 sati
Gaelic has the word you need! 'Cianalas'- a Scottish Gaelic word that means nostalgia for something that doesn't really exist outside your own imagination/memories...
Cptn. Viridian
Prije 18 sati
2:20 Well actually, I'm not sure about in britain, but I know a major highway in Alaska actually has part of it's run only passable by ferry, as in the path that route takes goes right over the ferry, so that is almost a valid title IMO
H Arz
Prije 19 sati
The feeling of Nostalgia about something that didn't exist is something I know from listening to Synthwave.
Hriday
Prije 19 sati
1:38 Why does that thousand sound like it's in more of an Irish accent than usual? I think it's Irish, at least - if it isn't, it is some kind of accent from Britain.
Laura
Prije 19 sati
Hahahahahaha I love "The beach where you can hear the sea." If nothing else, this AI could produce top tier shitposting.
Alex Parry
Prije 20 sati
surely a landslide is a cliff refusing to be a cliff
miketreehouse
Prije 20 sati
The Failed Bomb Plot Pidgeon was the result of a military coo...
Poppi
Prije 20 sati
Would like a video about those post railways!
Mathew Stormblessed
Prije dan
These are all doctor who episode ideas
Hexmonkey 2020
Prije dan
Someone should make an AI to realize patterns in text and see if it’s written by an AI
Westley Blakeslee
Prije dan
At least the AI thinks you just want to make the world a better place
Waggsmith YTP
Prije dan
Kirby’s Dream Land!
Egelik22
Prije dan
2:20 I can actually imagine a boat with a road on it designed to be "portable bridge" for low infrastructure places with water streams.
White Wizard
Prije dan
Wigan Pier is also in Wigan on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal. I never knew about the Westmidlands wigan pier project though so thankyou.
Super Pandas
Prije dan
Hey, if your reading this Tom, I have a video idea. You could do another video like the jingle bell one, asking for childhood rhymes, and go through them all. I would find that interesting.
Rin Callinen
Prije dan
5:05 I just want to appreciate this specific art. It’s my favorite out of the ones here.
Trey Bolick
Prije dan
That is incredible, but you went with the communist utopia instead of the floating mountain??
EraseDiskNow
Prije dan
I mean, you could always use those fictional things as videos for April Fool's Day.
Paul Anand
Prije dan
You speak too fast. Speak slow and get people to actually see all your videos completely.
Lawrence Calablaster
Prije dan
The real question is, in which of these hypothetical worlds do Marcel & Judith Kebakko live?
No-Feet McGee
Prije dan
Let's double-layer this Turing test: can a human come up with Tom Scott video titles that sound like they were created by a (relatively advanced, like GPT-3) AI? Here's my attempt: "I Asked 45,268 People to Steal My Identity" "The Polish City That's Slowly Floating Away" "I Am Not a Toaster" "Isaac Newton's Secret Ant Farm" "Why I Can't Upload this Video" "Don't Shoot a Mountain with a BB Gun" "The Assassination of Jerry the Mailman: Debunked" Add your own!
jcxz
Prije dan
"Nostalgia for a thing that never existed" That would be Historicism. And there are plenty of books and lectures about that very specific way of messing up your entire world view.
Fuzzy Images
Prije dan
I kinda wish I could get an AI to write some scripts for me. I'm terrible at getting scripts out, and honestly think it would be humorously on theme for my channel...
Max Crawshaw
Prije dan
My great great grandad was captain of the RRS discovery
Gabriele V.
Prije dan
6:19 KIRBY KIRBY KIRBY THAT'S THE NAME YOU SHOULD KNOW
Gabriele V.
Prije dan
2:44 Tom, please, DON'T give Clarkson, Hammond and May these ideas, they might take them too seriously
FalBΨFGRSΩ
Prije 2 dana
Kirby's Dream sounds like a good nintendo title- oh wait, Kirby's Dreamland, right.
Jeremy Hicks
Prije 2 dana
Yikes that AI is scary good at writing.
PotatoKiin 712
Prije 2 dana
you should make a new Matt and Tom video
Visiblur
Prije 2 dana
You've got plenty of April's fool videos though
Hector Mugwump
Prije 2 dana
@7:08 Did Tom *finally* have good luck with traffic passing during filming??
Hector Mugwump
Prije 2 dana
I really want to believe it
Mark Reynolds
Prije 3 dana
Sounds like the Roald Dahl story: The Great Automatic Gammatisator.
Clamhead
Prije 3 dana
anemoia means nostalgia for a thing you haven't/cannot experience
Erilobar
Prije 3 dana
'The british road that is also a boat' ... sir, that is an aircraft carrier.
M4R1U2
Prije 3 dana
I think ur Chanel is about usless, interessting and nerdy stuff just "ok now i know this But... What I have to Do with this Informationen."
jakelune
Prije 3 dana
anemoia - longing for or nostalgia for a place you have never been.
Merlyn Cooper
Prije 3 dana
In Welsh the word you need for that feeling of nostalgia is "Hiraeth"
not here anymore
Prije 3 dana
CONTAINMENT PROCEDURE
Sacklippe O__O
Prije 4 dana
Dont wanna be ruff but you seem to get kinda old
Josh Hickman
Prije 4 dana
British road that is also a boat -- I mean, drive-on ferries (and, arguably, aircraft carriers). Maybe not as nonsensical as it seems.
Heidi Bird Music
Prije 4 dana
Omg, it's adorable that you asked the AI using "please" at the start of your request. You are definitely one of the few people who are going to survive the techno-apocalypse because you showed the machines respect from the start. EDIT: and then this took a scary and sinister turn when you mentioned the possibility of AI generating customer reviews etc...
Tony Pang
Prije 4 dana
Don't know about AI, but HRgreen's algorithm decided I might be interested in a video from someone called Tom Scott. A couple weeks later, and I've lost count how many videos I've now watched from his channel.
Sokar12345
Prije 5 dana
ai like that combined with the advancements in deepfake technology will make for an interesting future where nothing is real and no one can be trusted.
HMC
Prije 5 dana
Cliffs that have shore to the oceans are actually refusing to be cliffs they keep collapsing constantly
Kevin Snel
Prije 5 dana
i wonder what'll happen if you'd give the bible to this AI and make it continue to write
Duy Khang
Prije 5 dana
5:25 Mandela effect
Myriads Feynman
Prije 5 dana
"The White Cube at the End of the World" omg I want to watch it! ...Or read it! ...Or listen to it! ...Or play it! Not sure what it may be so I'm not sure what verb I should put there, but I surely want to.
CalebOfKartin
Prije 6 dana
When cars pass,bit sounds like someone entering a nether portal
riloe
Prije 6 dana
I very well might start making a youtube channel comprised solely of Tom Scott-esque videos in which all the information presented is completely made up. Is that immoral, or funny?
xproot
Prije 6 dana
cool
Cherry Mosley
Prije 6 dana
Just subscribed
SmallWeinerSteve
Prije 6 dana
i would love to see Tom monologues an anime-uesqe video about the white cube at the end of the world omg
mystwork
Prije 6 dana
Tom Scott / Scarfolk Council crossover when!?
red apple one
Prije 7 dana
*the cliff that refuses to be a cliff*
Absolute Pineapple Studios
Prije 7 dana
*T’noight on Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death*
GPAngel
Prije 8 dana
That script sounded so good you could just upload that and I'd believe you
Ajc 7575
Prije 8 dana
Only a Brit would ask an AI to do something using please
Ajc 7575
Prije 8 dana
Wait so does it take actual stuff from the web and style a title in a Tom Scott kinda way
Penguin Imp the Insane
Prije 8 dana
So whatever *did* happen to be the video name it gave you hadn't put out at the time. Has it been since?
ZakFR
Prije 6 dana
The video has been uploaded, it's the one titled "Why No-One Will Save Covehithe, The Village That Will Soon Crumble Into The Sea", if you haven't found it yet
Mike ingrum
Prije 8 dana
I would love some of those not real stories! You should make a second channel devoted to it.
TheCatGoesRawr
Prije 8 dana
Is it just me or does "rhe white cube at the end of the world" make anyone else think of the "Ice cube project"... I think that is what it is called... I think they were trying to find out more about Neutrinos? Likely not a video option. But really interesting and worth reading into in my opinion
Mambe
Prije 8 dana
The beach where you can hear the sea XD
Matt B
Prije 8 dana
Lofthouse is about 30 minutes away from a village which was fully submerged following the building of Thruscross Reservoir, so the AI got so very close to being right
Matheus Schaefer
Prije 8 dana
Jeremy Clarkson's lottery of death is something I want to see (also, Clarkson must be a great source of material for AIs). And I'd love to read the script for British Moon landings as well, because why Britain should stop at Earth when could conquer the universe?
sophia s
Prije 8 dana
i feel like nostalgia for something you’ve never experienced is just... a wish??
Little Speck
Prije 8 dana
There actually is a word for nostalgia for something that’s never existed! It’s anemoia
Brindle Style
Prije 8 dana
anything worth doing once is worth doing twice
Wensleydale
Prije 8 dana
I will give up my left lung to watch Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death
An Account That Exists For Reasons
Prije 9 dana
"The Dream of a Russian Utopia in East Yorkshire" Had be wheezing, lmao-
Marjohn's Musings
Prije 9 dana
That was fun
Flynn Sloan
Prije 9 dana
Those untrue ones are almost all SCP ideas...
Alan Burns
Prije 9 dana
I need a fictional Tom Scott universe channel.
Deez Nuts
Prije 9 dana
The cliff that refuses to be a cliff Huh I swear you just uploaded that video
Ciro García
Prije 9 dana
Animated Tom Scott looks like Grian
floooooooooooooooood
Prije 9 dana
I want to see the cliff that refuses to be a cliff.
Renan Andrade dos santos
Prije 10 dana
2:45
Lloyd Davies
Prije 10 dana
I’m from Aberfan, good shout not doing that one, very depressing
Lloyd Davies
Prije 10 dana
Also it’s funny you said you don’t think there’s a word for nostalgia for something that doesn’t exist, but actually in welsh there’s this word, ‘hiraeth’, which doesn’t translate, but sort of means a longing to go back to either wales, or a place/time that doesn’t exist!
starterpack7.3
Prije 10 dana
“The cliff that refuses to be a cliff” would be a great video explaining a geological terminology error made in 1963 that has never been corrected
Iron Fist Dragon
Prije 10 dana
the traffic on that road has perfect timing
SAU
Prije 10 dana
Dude I love dungeon So stories and this reminds me of that.
Adam Navigato
Prije 10 dana
I wish you had hit the “write script” button on Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death
Blue Loft Beast
Prije 11 dana
i heard the failed bomb plot pigeon and choked on my water
Water Sheep
Prije 11 dana
I demand to see the cliff that refuses to be a cliff
DaBeast34
Prije 11 dana
Cool drawings
Ru Ok
Prije 11 dana
now give the AI the title "faeces"
TVK - TheVeganKnight
Prije 11 dana
Interesting.
Boglenight
Prije 12 dana
“The cliff that refuses to be a cliff” There are so many great reinforced cliffs out there. If a cliff needs to be reinforced multiple times it could be said that it’s refusing to be a cliff.
Nathan Adler
Prije 12 dana
the face in the thumbnail tho
Bandito Donburrito
Prije 12 dana
Whats the deal with green, Green Death and Green in the batman smells vid
Johanthan Romero
Prije 12 dana
5:22 Thats just called the Mandela Effect
🎢 ZarStocher
Prije 12 dana
"The white cube at the end of the world" broke me xDDD
Veggieoskibroski
Prije 13 dana
Just a RANDOM question: If an AI built something, who does it belong to? The creator of the AI, or the person who placed in the details that the content the AI generates is based off of?
kayf
Prije 13 dana
Plot Twist: The AI came up with this title and the script.
Javier Fito
Prije 13 dana
AI Title generator: "I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good" Tom: What? AI Title generator: What?
Skrollz
Prije 13 dana
I actually enjoyed this video so much that I came back a month later to watch it again and chuckle a bit
JMUDoc
Prije 13 dana
I think one of the titles was supposed to have been "The Beach - Where You Can Hear the Sea."