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He has people for that kind of thing. Probably he doesn't want to sign up like giving them his email or phone number or whatever they want. Also he is negativel
by ftxbro 3y ago
He has people for that kind of thing. Probably he doesn't want to sign up like giving them his email or phone number or whatever they want. Also he is negatively disposed towards the LLMs if you have read what he thinks about them. Maybe he doesn't want to tempt himself to put 'big tiddy robot gf' in the textbox and then that's everywhere in the news, that Don Knuth typed that.
- amichail 3y agoHow could any computer scientist not be curious enough to experiment with ChatGPT himself/herself?
- ftxbro 3y agoI think he is by default less interested in gigantic black box systems that he can't fit in his head, and that secondly he has read Gary Marcus thinkpiece and was persuaded by him, and thirdly I feel like there might be some kind of religion thing but I don't have direct evidence of that third one. Here is what Knuth has said, related to why he isn't as curious as you might expect: > "Gary Marcus's column in the April CACM brilliantly describes the terrifying consequences of these developments. [...] I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same. [...] The topic [LLMs] is timely, and important enough not to ignore completely, but it's emphatically not for me."
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- joaogui1 3y agoI'll link to my comment in another thread about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36023814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36023814