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" ...In my book," pretty much sums it up. Literally everyone who seems to pontificate on a Chat bot and new Photoshop features has a book and can't seem to help

" ...In my book," pretty much sums it up. Literally everyone who seems to pontificate on a Chat bot and new Photoshop features has a book and can't seem to help but mention it. Replace "book" with literally anything else and you can see it's completely about ego and money at the end of the day. He's probably getting ready to announce he accepted a position from one of these recently funded AI companies and whatever he's getting from that is more than he could make from his book, academia and giving interviews where he talks about humanity's fear of fire.

frankfrank13 3y ago
idk about that, this isn't some rando twitter bandwagoner. This is a legendary thinker and writer
FrustratedMonky 3y ago
I initially thought so too. But his wording wasn't very self-building, it was all about how he was wrong, scared, etc... Overall not the take (wording) I'd expect from someone doing self promotion.
elil17 3y ago
Hofstadter clearly isn't trying to peddle his books for money or clout. He writes in depth, thoughtful books about the nature of consciousness, not guides to making money off of AI. The book he mentions in this interview, I Am a Strange Loop, isn't some cash grab in response to LLMs - it was written in 2007.
StrictDabbler 3y ago
Hofstadter won a Pulitzer in 1980. His books are among the most important ever written about the meaning and structure of AI. He's had four decades where he could have milked that reputation for money or influence and he's chosen hard academic research at every branch point. He sold millions of copies of a densely-written 777 page book about semantic encoding (GEBEGB). It is insane and/or ignorant to imagine he's jonesing for clout or trying to ride the ML wave.
- iamleppert 3y ago
  Incredible! Basically proves my point, you came here to tell me to buy his book. Maybe he's really worried that AI is going to put people like him out of a job when it can produce and market content at scale?
  - slowmovintarget 3y ago
    It cannot produce that kind of content. Especially with the current lobotomizations.
  - StrictDabbler 3y ago
    Yes. The 78-year-old Pulitzer-prize winner with forty years of tenure, several fellowships, multiple books in every library in the country, who spent his entire life trying to develop AI software, is merely "worried" that AI is going to "put people like him out of a job". He's explicitly expressing a deep existential sadness at how computationally simple certain artistic endeavors turned out to be and how that's devalued them in his mind but at the end of the day it's really just about his paycheck. Also I'm totally here trying to sell you his books. Nice job, Diogenes. Your cynicism cracked the case.
Smaug123 3y ago
You should consider reading Gödel, Escher, Bach. It is an astonishing book.

frankfrank13 3y ago

idk about that, this isn't some rando twitter bandwagoner. This is a legendary thinker and writer

FrustratedMonky 3y ago

I initially thought so too. But his wording wasn't very self-building, it was all about how he was wrong, scared, etc... Overall not the take (wording) I'd expect from someone doing self promotion.

elil17 3y ago

Hofstadter clearly isn't trying to peddle his books for money or clout. He writes in depth, thoughtful books about the nature of consciousness, not guides to making money off of AI. The book he mentions in this interview, I Am a Strange Loop, isn't some cash grab in response to LLMs - it was written in 2007.

StrictDabbler 3y ago

Hofstadter won a Pulitzer in 1980. His books are among the most important ever written about the meaning and structure of AI. He's had four decades where he could have milked that reputation for money or influence and he's chosen hard academic research at every branch point. He sold millions of copies of a densely-written 777 page book about semantic encoding (GEBEGB). It is insane and/or ignorant to imagine he's jonesing for clout or trying to ride the ML wave.

iamleppert 3y ago
Incredible! Basically proves my point, you came here to tell me to buy his book. Maybe he's really worried that AI is going to put people like him out of a job when it can produce and market content at scale?
- slowmovintarget 3y ago
  It cannot produce that kind of content. Especially with the current lobotomizations.
- StrictDabbler 3y ago
  Yes. The 78-year-old Pulitzer-prize winner with forty years of tenure, several fellowships, multiple books in every library in the country, who spent his entire life trying to develop AI software, is merely "worried" that AI is going to "put people like him out of a job". He's explicitly expressing a deep existential sadness at how computationally simple certain artistic endeavors turned out to be and how that's devalued them in his mind but at the end of the day it's really just about his paycheck. Also I'm totally here trying to sell you his books. Nice job, Diogenes. Your cynicism cracked the case.

Smaug123 3y ago

You should consider reading Gödel, Escher, Bach. It is an astonishing book.