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That's an excellent tip. Form an idea of what "they" are trying to convey... If it evaporates unexpectedly it might not be trying to convey anything...cause it'
by afarviral 6y ago
That's an excellent tip. Form an idea of what "they" are trying to convey... If it evaporates unexpectedly it might not be trying to convey anything...cause it's just an ML algo. The trouble is having clarity of thought myself, I barely know what point I'm trying to make let alone following the precise points of others half the time. These things really nail verisimilitude of chatter about an unfamiliar topic or of a smarter person, for instance, where you can't detect the BS because you assume lack of knowledge.
- g_p 6y agoThere's actually a really interesting field of (serious) academic and scientific endeavour into the study of "pseudo profound bullshit" - a search for that will find you some of the papers available freely online. It seems that these text generation bots are pretty good, as you say, at generating some basic level chatter about a topic in a manner that can sound convincing. Somewhat like a "talk-show style TV news pundit" can - I'm reminded of the various times they're tricked into giving their commentary on things that haven't happened yet, and they happily (blindly) oblige, because they're more interested in being seen to be an expert than in actually having something to say. I think the more confident and critical you are in reading, the raider it is to detect the nonsense through internal inconsistencies - many of these text generation systems really struggle to produce an internally consistent argument.