Post ASZpCRLRNEy7CfBsFE by chengyjonathan@sigmoid.social
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(DIR) Post #ASZpCQB7i77baNM7Wa by chengyjonathan@sigmoid.social
2023-02-11T17:24:06Z
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https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-webTed Chiang is a good writer, but the momentum of this piece comes from a strawman, setting enthusiasm for llms as predominantly flowing from fantasies of anthropomorphized AI. From there, it’s *easy* to dismiss llms as “lossy memorizers.” Experts are still learning what/how exactly llms learn, so it’s premature to try to package llms into a metaphor — one of the most “lossy” forms of figurative speech. 😂
(DIR) Post #ASZpCQkvYzlHNQ6iKe by chengyjonathan@sigmoid.social
2023-02-11T17:25:34Z
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“Why use a metaphor when you have the original research?”“Oh idk, maybe because we sometimes want to see if, with a figurative transformation function, we can succinctly condense how we describe a thing?”
(DIR) Post #ASZpCRLRNEy7CfBsFE by chengyjonathan@sigmoid.social
2023-02-11T17:28:16Z
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This piece feels like it came from a higher up pressuring “we need a story about chatgpt, have it on my table tomorrow!” *1920s American Accent*Everyone at the office is like, “are any of us really capable of writing this thing?” Many shrugs.
(DIR) Post #ASZpCRqHWZdekJcVJg by TedUnderwood@sigmoid.social
2023-02-11T17:30:09Z
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@chengyjonathan Get me a picture of ChatGPT! I want it on my desk tomorrow! Where is that Parker kid; he's never around when a big story breaks.
(DIR) Post #ASZpJNwWQ882gBqYk4 by chengyjonathan@sigmoid.social
2023-02-11T17:31:26Z
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@TedUnderwood to complete the circle. The rebuttal would piece would need to be a shorter critique of chatgpt written by chatgpt. 🤣