One way to generate buzz for your new food truck: a unique theme or gimmick. But with new food trucks popping up everywhere, how can you ensure that y

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2021-05-27 20:30:08

One way to generate buzz for your new food truck: a unique theme or gimmick. But with new food trucks popping up everywhere, how can you ensure that your idea is creative enough?

Lindsay Diamond suggested a possible neural net solution. So as a demonstration, I wrote short descriptions for 5 real food trucks (Gourdough’s Donuts, Bananarchy, Taco Beast, The Grillenium Falcon, and Company 77 Mobile Pizza Unit) and then got a neural net called GPT-3 to add to the list.

The first variant of GPT-3 I usually try is the largest, DaVinci, because if DaVinci can’t catch onto a particular format, the others won’t either. As I had hoped, DaVinci added new food trucks to the list. But when I checked, the food trucks already existed. DaVinci had seen enough lists of real restaurants and food trucks during training that it just drew on these.

I had the best results actually with the smallest GPT-3 variant, Ada, who knew enough to catch on that this was a list of food trucks (usually), but not enough to come up with existing, or even plausible, suggestions. I love them.

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