Leon FurzeMay 18, 2023

The AI Iceberg: Understanding ChatGPT

Analogies are useful for understanding complex ideas, and there are plenty of complexities for educators trying to wrap their heads around ChatGPT. In this post, I’ll try to explain some of the features of the chatbot and the model it’s built on top of. I'm deliberately avoiding any kind of analogy that represents the AI as magical, mythical, human, or godlike - we've seen enough of them. I’m not claiming that this analogy is watertight or that there is no better way to conceptualise […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/05/18/the-ai-iceberg-understanding-chatgpt/

quidscribam?Feb 23
“One could spend hours watching
the play of light on the stones,
for the square forms
a monumental ensemble
of almost matchless harmony.”
#GuideMichelin #noai #humanlanguage
Show threadMathew StormSep 21, 2025

Been thinking about Article VII, Section 10 - "The Sacred Right to Call Bullshit" - and whether profanity belongs in a governance document.

When a tech company wants to acquire your open source project, there's corporate speak: "We'll consider all strategic options to maximize stakeholder value." Then there's what humans actually think: "lol absolutely fucking not."

The idea is that sanitized corporate language IS the problem - it obscures meaning, distances us from consequences, makes everything feel fake.

I think the swearing serves a purpose - it's a constitutional commitment against PR-speak. But I could be wrong. Maybe it's just my frustration with recursive absurd bleeding through.

What's more important for governance: accessibility to all audiences, or authenticity of voice? Can you have both?

#TechPhilosophy #OpenSource #CorporateSpeak #HumanLanguage #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #Programming #TechEthics #PhilosophyofAI

Laura aka LoboTCMar 17, 2025

When did #human #language emerge?
A new analysis suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely perhaps 35,000 years after that
#evolution #linguistics #genetics #languages #archaeology #HumanLanguage

🔗: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1503900/full

https://news.mit.edu/2025/when-did-human-language-emerge-0314

Frontiers | Linguistic capacity was present in the Homo sapiens population 135 thousand years ago

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Waywords StudioOct 1, 2024

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗲?” 𝗯𝘆 𝗡𝗼𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗺𝘀𝗸𝘆 -

Chomsky's argument that human language and cognition are conditioned by biology is briefly unpacked as he traces both the nature of external (E-) and internal (I- / grammar) language facility and the history of thinkers who wrestled with it. Thick but enlightening.

#books #bookreviews #noamchomsky #whatkindofcreaturesarewe #linguistics #biolinguistics #epistemology #humanlanguage