Ricky MondelloIt feels like a large problem that the tech industry at large has an obsession with next-generation markov chains that can produce convincing-sounding prose with completely factually inaccurate content.
Danny Whitt@rmondello or, as my CS background might suggest, a side effect
kira :3@rmondello "welp it's too late to backpedal on the hype" -the tech industry this week
Corey Quinn@rmondello I feel like you’re not giving enough credit to my last-generation Markov chain that I should really get around to publicizing one of these days…
It is spectacularly awful.
Rita Portela (parody)@rmondello
Fluent gibberish has long been a problem in every field and every industry.
It's just getting much worse now since it builds on itself.
John Kellden... humans at large ...
sanguish@rmondello that perfectly describes marketing, no?
PhDog 🇮🇪Are they just trying to build themselves a friend or what?
Wiley Hodges@rmondello As a marketing person, I feel threatened…
Bill Lloyd@wileyhodges @rmondello I'd suggest retiring before the machines take over.
… wait
David Moles@rmondello @pam I mean, that’s a pretty good description of a lot of tech CEOs, so…
Dr. Greg Kochanski@rmondello Good prose without regard for the truth is basic bullshit generation. There's a really neat book called "On Bullshit" by Prof. Harry Frankfurt.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on-bullshit
That being said, it's really hard for a computer to have regard for the truth. It can't know anything about the universe directly, all it can do is reproduce and combine things it reads.
