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I read way more into it. I actually think the author is attempting a postmodern deconstruction of the concept of AI in the first place. In typical internally in
by dcow 4y ago
I read way more into it. I actually think the author is attempting a postmodern deconstruction of the concept of AI in the first place. In typical internally inconsistent sloppy rhetoric, this anti-fascist (his words not mine) dismissal both argues that LLMs are not real AI because presumably they can't think and also that we should be afraid of them because as AI they encode modernity into their output and modernity is bad because it perpetuates inequality by its very nature. Since stochastic parrots threaten to accelerate labor and make humans more productive and make some labor redundant, it's also bad that it creates new jobs which pay humans a Kenyan median wage to sterilize it and make it acceptable for a postmodern anti-fascist utopia. I'm absolutely and horribly confused.
- bglazer 4y agoInteresting. I think a more coherent form of the argument is this: LLM's aren't capable of reasoning or self-updating. Capitalists are exploiting powerless labor to encode their preferences and goals into LLM's. Because the LLM can't really think and isn't human they can control it. So, we're going to be forced to deal with robots that perfectly embody the worst aspects of the modern economy and society.