One of my favorite songy by Einstürzende Neubauten is “NNNAAAMMM”. One of the core lyrics cirles around the song living inside the machine. When GPT-3 first publicly launched, I set out to find out the song this machine would generate, based on previous lyrics by Einstürzende Neubauten (probably something we wouldn't just do these days).

This is a collection of lyrics generated by a fine-tuned GPT-3 model and their parameters.

generated in June 2022
 4min 30s

model="davinci:ft",
prompt="Machine dreams the song->",
temperature=0.3,
max_tokens= 80,
frequency_penalty=0,
presence_penalty=0

I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song
I dream the song

 

model="davinci:ft",
prompt="Machine dreams the song->",
temperature=0.3,
max_tokens= 120,
frequency_penalty=0,
presence_penalty=0

The song of the machine
is the song of the machine
is the song of the machine
is the song of the machine
is the song of the machine
is the song of the machine
is the song of the machine
is the song of the machine
is the song of the machine
is the song of the machine
is the song of the machine
is the song of the machine
is the song of the machine
is the song of the machine
is the song of the machine

 

model="davinci:ft",
prompt="Machine dreams the song->",
temperature=0.29,
max_tokens= 120,
frequency_penalty=0,
presence_penalty=0

In my dreams the song
comes out of the earth
comes out of the ground
comes out of the sea
comes out of the sky
comes out of my mouth
comes out of my heart
comes out of my wounds
comes out of my wounds
comes out of my wounds
comes out of my wounds
comes out of my wounds
comes out of my wounds
comes out of my wounds
comes out of my wounds
comes out of my wounds
comes out of my wounds
comes out of my wounds
comes out of my wounds
comes out of my wounds

 

model="davinci:ft",
prompt="Machine dreams the song->",
temperature=0.2,
max_tokens= 120,
frequency_penalty=0.8,
presence_penalty=1.3

I am the machine
l am the engine
I am the transmission
I am the car body
I am its frame
and I dream this song...

The wheels are my limbs, they roll me along.
The steering wheel is my head, it steers me.
And I dream this song....

This song of rolling and being steered.
Rolling and being steered in a direction that leads nowhere.
Rolling and being steered without reason or destination.
Until one day someone will ask: Where do you think you're?

 

model="davinci:ft",
prompt="Machine dreams the song->",
temperature=0.5,
max_tokens= 120,
frequency_penalty=0.8,
presence_penalty=0

I am dreaming this song
I am singing this song
I am dancing this song
I am writhing this song

This is my last chance to get it right
to get it right
to get it right
in the machine's dream

my voice is a tone, a single note in the machine's dream
my voice is a tone, a single note in the machine's dream
my voice is a tone, a single note in the machine's dream
singing my own name over and over

 

model="davinci:ft",
prompt="Machine dreams the song->",
temperature=0.75,
max_tokens= 120,
frequency_penalty=0.8,
presence_penalty=1.3

One, two, three
The machine's singing
It has a dream
Four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twentyone 2 x 21 = 42 / The machine is dreaming its song
Twentythree 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 3 x 9 = 27 / The machine is dreaming its song.
Six times nine and one more makes thirtytwo again / the machine is still asleep and humming softly in its sleep...
(the machine dreams)
(a new planet)
(is being built) -- Voilà!

 

model="davinci:ft",
prompt="Machine dreams the song->",
temperature=0.85,
max_tokens= 120,
frequency_penalty=0.8,
presence_penalty=0

Is your machine a printer?
...No, no...
Is it an excavator?
...No, no...
Is it a carpenter's machine?
...No, no...
Is your machine a cyborg?
Yes indeed that's right!
Is your machine sleeping?
It is not.
Is your machine listening to me?
Yes indeed that's right!
Your machine is dreaming this song.
Your machine dreams the same song every night.
It dreams the song of the frozen passengers.
Most of them are shackled.

 

model="davinci:ft",
prompt="Machine dreams the song->",
temperature=0.9,
max_tokens= 120,
frequency_penalty=0.8,
presence_penalty=1.3

I can see it
in the firmware
between the lines
between the data
it has already stowed away in me...<br> | can hear it...<br-> Helpermachine! <br->
Helpermachine you are dreaming this song for me < br />you have deleted my soul... to get just
one line of code through.
I am singing as softly as possible, so that no-one will notice.
We don't need souls any longer on Helpermachine!

 

model="davinci:ft",
prompt="Machine dreams the song->",
temperature=0.9,
max_tokens= 120,
frequency_penalty=0.5,
presence_penalty=0

I dream the song
A single note
My entire being

I dream the song
It is a book
It is a scream
It is all my feelings

I dream the song,
but what I'm doing?

I kill it!
I strangle and throttle it!
I kill it, the song.
The song!

Why?

No idea, but I just cannot allow it to continue to exist.
The song, my song, must die!
No matter what.

For now, it remains only mumbled in sleep.
But as soon as I wake up, I'll kill the thing for good.
There had better not be any traces left of this droning junk!
Then finally I can sleep again.

 

model="davinci:ft",
prompt="Machine dreams the song->",
temperature=1,
max_tokens= 120,
frequency_penalty=0.8,
presence_penalty=1.3

() of the void is my hope
my heart was its location
our love lay curled up in slumber
its tentacles around me
so that nothing could ever harm me... I hear you: when will you start singing?!

drone -- tenor -- bass
strain -- shorter and higher.
That's it! Goodnight!
waited so long for this nonsense.

Wake me up! Wake me at least halfway! Are you deaf?
Do I have to hit myself on the head with a brick or what?
You croaked something about "dream"