"But language — how it’s generated, what it means — is about to get very contentious. We’re already disoriented by the chatbots we’ve got. The technology that’s coming will be even more ubiquitous, powerful, and destabilizing. A prudent citizen, Bender believes, might choose to know how it works."

HT @ct_bergstrom this profile of Emily Bender is *amazing*. From now on we should call #AI, #SALAMI (Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences).

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

Also I've never heard of the #Octopus parable before but it's a really great analogy for what #SALAMI #LLMs actually do:

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

@Ruth_Mottram

Surprise Twists File

The octopus has enabled a sort of empathy via the communications, and also senses urgency in the call for help.

Not knowing what else to do, the octopus replies they should find an octopus and give the sticks to them. The octopus then appears, is given the sticks, sees the danger 1st hand, and beats the living crap out of that bear.

Be well 😎