I've spent my whole life seeking reliable expertise and asking, humbly, for time and specialized knowledge from the people who are the experts. This really is the shape of my career and key to who I am. I want to get things right, and I want to fix it when I don't.

But I'm now living in a society that's just thrown all that away for hallucinating stocastic parrots as arbiters of truth.

@quinn because we use the term "artificial intelligence" and people assume that it's actually intelligent. if we called it a regurgitation machine people would probably have a different expectation from it