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RE: https://mastodon.social/@cslinuxboy/116225578585237555

This is not “normal”. Skilled and productive people falling heads over heels over a word predictor and thinking it’s sentient is not normal. This is not the kind of effects that normal automation tools do. This is WEIRD and NOT NORMAL.

Something strange is happening here. This “tool” is modifying well-adjusted human brains in a strange (and I think destructive) way, and we’re seeing it happen to some prominent person every week. How many people are being taken in that we don’t even hear about?

#ai

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@drahardja but it's not just a word predictor. the attention layers can learn structures implicit in their data, for example grammatical rules or internal representations of maps, like actual geospatial internal representtions and actual elements of grammar, for instance one part picks out some structure in grammar, then the next attention layer another, and then the next the other, and so on.