Today's manmade horror: Bazingas on twitter are amazed that glorified chatbots like GPT-3 can produce readable text that is nominally about whatever topic you request. Say they just spent 20 minutes learning about physics. Say that this makes all existing forms of education obsolete. Say that teachers are no longer needed.
Directly below this someone else posted a prolonged dialogue where the GPT-3 bot calmly explained why a peregrine falcon is the worlds fastest marine mammal. When corrected it said that the sailfish is the fastest marine mammal, explaining that sailfish are warm blooded and have fur.
Bazingas think they can replace teachers (and everything else) with their half-baked machine learning systems because they're so ignorant and uneducated about anything outside their direct field of expertise that they don't actually know what any other disciplines do, or why they do what they do, or even how to evaluate when they're being fed bad knowledge.
Link for dunking.
There is so, so, so much contempt for the process and skills and creativity of artists going around. "Akshually humans just observe things and then mash those things together to make new things, exactly like this math problem does!" Like jesus christ how do you argue with something like that?
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Ugh. I am 100% a meat computer guy. I don't think there's a unitary self, I buy in to the idea that our "conscious" mind is mostly an illusion and the real thinking is done by hundreds of interacting non-conscious modules in the brain, I think (with evidence) that our perception of the world is extremely limited and inaccurate and propped up by so many different hacks and shortcuts that it's a wonder we can perceive anything, and I still think these guys are misanthropic shithead creeps.
Who don't understand what they're talking about.
Because whereas I read a very small number of neuroscience articles that I don't understand, they seem to read no neuroscience articles yet very confident in their ability to understand neuroscience.
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