Carl T. BergstromMar 2, 2023

Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.

It's also about the people who are behind that hype, and about what their way of thinking has the potential to do to us.

It's worth reading all the way to the end.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

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@ct_bergstrom @emilymbender This is really excellent. This is a less technical look, but has the most excellent summary of LLM I've seen - "an automated mansplaining machine. Often wrong, and yet always certain — and with a tendency to be condescending in the process. And if it gets confused, it's never the problem. You are."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence-automated-mansplaining-machine
Artificial Intelligence Is Just an Automated Mansplaining Machine

Artificial intelligence like ChatGPT is often wrong, and yet it's somehow always certain, even tending to double down on incorrect answers. Sound familiar?

Futurism
Mar 2, 2023 at 4:08pmWeb