Good post by David Golumbia on ChatGPT and how miserable it all is :rat-salute-2:

  • mittens [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Same for the stochastic parrot thing. I’m a stochastic parrot, so what

    The only count I disagree here is that calling us stochastic parrots in the same way that chatGPT is a stochastic parrot is vastly overselling existing technology. Literally a claim made by the CEO of the AI company, probably worth being more than a little bit skeptic. In fact I'd go as far as claiming that artificial intelligences deriving actual meaning is the last frontier of AI, a problem that can't even be conceptualized, to my knowledge at least.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It reveals a fundamentally incurious ignorance about how language and cognition work. It's such a patently ridiculous statement that it could only possibly have come from a stem poisoned tech ceo who hasn't read anything but bazinga hype articles since highschool.