While co-writing a sci-fi story with GPT-3, it came up with something called “Muppet Pox.” That seemed like an interesting jumping off point, so I scrapped the story, and used just “Muppet Pox” as starter text. GPT-3 generated a board game, and the description is very structured. It generated its…

I’ve been running a few experiments with Open AI’s GPT-3 to see what it can do. We ended up writing a novel together. If this is your first time hearing about GPT-3, it’s a general purpose language model that takes in text inputs and returns natural language outputs. A few…

The original bar manager of The Alembic, Daniel Hyatt, passed away last week. He was an amazing bartender and helped to usher in the new wave of craft cocktails in San Francisco. I live down the street from The Alembic and went there often. All of the original bar staff…