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"They're so intelligent. I was able to converse with them about quantum mechanics, which is something I've never even tried to talk to a regular horse about."

I mean, that I would classify as just genius

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Wow, reading through... The Onion can fire half of its staff -- just write a headline, generate the article a few times, and either edit the best one or mine them all for gold.

For me, the fun of The Onion is almost entirely in the headline. That is where the creativity and the laugh is, maybe there and in the first sentence or so. The rest of the piece tends to be predictable from that, so GPT-3 could do that part. Coming up with the beginning is another matter, so the writers' jobs are safe for now.

Well, not quite QM, but the sentence also implies that the speaker talks to regular horses about other topics or at least admits the existence of topics you can talk to regular horses about - maybe oat quality, I don't know.

It's well-formed nonsense like this that gave me enough hints in all GPT-3 samples so far popping up today.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that sentence in a book from an author well versed in exquisite British humor. And it made my day just a little bit better.

Yes, the "regular horse" bit works very well if you think of it as a deliberately humorous or ironic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litotes

That was my favorite line.

I find most of the result texts entertaining with many instances of ironic humor.

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