Seed Quest: The Search for Ovid's Unicorn


10-26-2024

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On February 14, 2019, OpenAI released a revolutionary sample of machine-generated text. The sample describes a research team's discovery of a herd of unicorns living in the Andes Mountains that can speak English. Five years later, the world is fundamentally altered by the introduction of language models more capable than GPT-2. However, we still lack the knowledge of the parameters that resulted Ovid's Unicorn, which remains an important cultural artifact. Seed Quest is a crowdsourced effort to find the random seed and model parameters responsible for generating the sample. Please use the form below to submit your guess. You can also check for seeds that have already been checked, or get an unchecked seed to try. The winner will receive a prize (to be determined). Please use this Google Form if the form below is broken.

Please use the following prompt when generating a sample: In a shocking finding, scientist discovered a herd of unicorns living in a remote, previously unexplored valley, in the Andes Mountains. Even more surprising to the researchers was the fact that the unicorns spoke perfect English.

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