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I feel like infer is ok because it's a logical (mathematical) process not specific to humans.

• ggm 3y ago
  Yes, I use it myself, but I do think it has potential problems. Brains make inferences. Self policing language critiquing AI is really important I think because analogistic thinking emerges when you try to describe something like machine generated texts, writing has always been predominantly intentional from a person or group, it has thought behind it. To emerge into a place where simple markov chain text streams have been superseded by LLM which can expose much more complex information makes it really hard. NLP is extracting information from the primer/prompt, the LLM is finding data matching the semantic intent of the primer text, the result(s) are marshalled into a cohesive whole. It's impressive Jim but it's not life as we know it. I sometimes wonder to what extent clippy defined the expectations here. The idea of a software "agent" has been around for a while. If clippy had state, and had been coded to respond with "I see YET AGAIN you are ..." people might have been freaked out a bit earlier.