Genuine question: why do we expect LLMs like GPT-x to be both truth/knowledge machines and fabulists (i.e., creative generators)? Aren’t the two tasks inherently contradictory? If it needs to both be accurate AND needs to be able to lie (make up arbitrary facts, say, for a pieces of fiction), how does the same model do both reliably?
Eric William Lin
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Award-winning data experience designer/creative technologist. Tech/data/design nerd. Coffee and cocktail-obsessed. Used to be a composer. Canto + Taiwanese-American. 🇺🇸🇹🇼🇭🇰🏳️🌈 Work on: www.ericwilliamlin.com
SwiftOnSecurityI really truly think a social media hack is enthusiasm.
People (maybe a majority) follow me on Twitter who have no career focus on computer security.
I follow farmers on YouTube just talking about their tractor repair tribulations with perseverance. I will absolutely never drive a tractor or put any direct tractor knowledge they give me into practice. But I care because they communicate larger fundamental insights into finding solutions.
This is a magic ingredient. You can't really fake it. And people know when they see it. It's one of those inescapably human manifestations the brain recognizes micro-signals from.
New clarified milk punch: Glenlivet 12yr single malt Scotch, Angostura 1919 Caribbean rum, Felix Roasting Ethiopian Gera Estate natural anaerobic coffee, Amaro Montenegro, Giffard banana 🍌 liqueur, Chinola passion fruit, 🍋 lemon juice, milk-clarified.
The existence of various decentralized servers is both a major strength and major downside of Mastodon. It's not hard to understand as a techy...but it's probably wildly unintuitive for most people coming from Twitter.
Looking forward to the day where we stop talking about Twitter here, have a thriving community spanning all sorts of topics, and no longer have to think about a particular pathetic person.
Leaving a network and rebuilding community on a new platform seems so tiring and is such an uphill battle…but also…what a rare opportunity full of potential. I’m all over the place with my postings, but professional I’m data viz/data experience, tech, and design, and a dilettante in many other fields. Cocktails and Chinese pop among other things for example. Follow me if interested.
Where are my #dataviz folks at?
The nice thing about starting over on a new platform is that I don’t feel particularly constrained on what I should post about? Data viz stuff? Sure! Cocktails? Ok! Asian-American-related topics? Fair game! Remake myself a bit…