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
@ct_bergstrom @emilymbender Would love to see this debate. Is it available somewhere?
On the highlighted part, I think it’s both. We are not a stochastic parrot. Heck, we aren’t even our brains. But our stochastic parrot brain plays a crucial role in making us who we are.
@anthony @ct_bergstrom @emilymbender could it be this?
@escapadesrpg The article describes the singularity as “the tech fantasy that, at some point soon, the distinction between human and machine will collapse.”
Umm, no, the singularity would very much not involve machines becoming a thing even remotely close to humans.
But I’m not sure journalists are ruining journalism so much as that these sorts of ignorant, biased articles have always been part of journalism. Critical reading has always been an important part of reading all kinds of text.
Carl T. Bergstrom
Anthony DiPierro
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