The robots aren't taking over. They're not falling in love. They're not feeling. They don't want to be alive. They're not evil masterminds. They create word patterns based off text on the internet. Is what journalists should be saying, not gee-whiz sci-fi LARPing about fancy autocorrect.

@drewharwell Speaking to some people is like listening to a malfunctioning autocorrect, so it’s no wonder people anthropomorphise ChatGPT.

It’s the point of the Turing Test.

@drewharwell Wait til you see the next generation of LLM’s. You might change your mind.

Starts to bring into question just how much of an automaton humans are when it comes to verbal communication. We follow patterns of thought and speech that we are barely aware of.