A Robot And I Brainstorm a Detective Story - by Ben Jenkins
After leaving The Feed, I’ve missed our weekly writers rooms. So, this morning, I turned to the GPT-3 Autoregressive language model to get my fix. I haven’t edited the questions or responses in any way, though I did cut out a boring part where we talked in circles about motive.
A private detective is hired by a client to investigate a crime. The detective looks for clues and interviews witnesses. The detective eventually solves the crime.
The clue that solves the case is a letter that the mistress wrote to the husband, confessing her love for him and her desire to kill his wife.
Are you saying that you can’t be a good detective if you smoke a huge pipe? I think Hercule Poirot smoked a huge pipe. Maybe I’m misremembering.
That’s good. The first thing he’ll want to do, after strapping on his wooden leg, is look for clues. Who does he talk to first?
The detective does not believe her because he finds a letter that she wrote to the husband, confessing her love for him and her desire to kill his wife.
