Göktuğ Kayaalp

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PhD student (remedial year) @ Boğaziçi History.
MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).
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Ahem

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nancycomics/116095967428506312

Welcome to psycholinguistics class, today's topic is garden path sentences

Only the best and brightest are working for Anthropic.

#Claude #AI

Imagine if every AI data centre was a library. Full of readers of every age and demographic, reading everything and anything - romantic bestsellers, pop science, reference books, magazines and newspapers, the poetry and philosophy of every culture imaginable. People exercising their actual intelligence, thinking for themselves rather than generating endless slop.

Then consider who would be most scared by this.

Google Maps has just suggested that I walk across the fucking Bosporus!?
If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design
Fuck Mozilla

At this point we're just obliged to quit Firefox.

https://stateof.mozilla.org/ (website is cognitohazard)

I've done it, you can too. Almost anything else is an upgrade, frankly.

State of Mozilla 2025

Doing for AI what we did for the web

"According to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language – and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own."

Intriguing article by Benjamin Riley (founder of Cognitive Resonance) for @verge.

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https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems

#neuroscience #linguistics #AI

Large language mistake

Neuroscience indicates language is distinct from thought, raising questions about whether AI large language models are a viable path to artificial general intelligence.

The Verge