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I think it's under-appreciated how much LLMs harvest the natural, human tendency to generously ascribe meaning, subtext, and intent to text they read, glossing
by RodgerTheGreat 3y ago
I think it's under-appreciated how much LLMs harvest the natural, human tendency to generously ascribe meaning, subtext, and intent to text they read, glossing over flaws and small mistakes so long as the overall "thrust" seems reasonable enough.
In a sense, LLMs have reinvented cold-reading from first-principles and created the cleverest Hans of them all.
- adamrezich 3y agoWe really should have figured out anthropomorphization and how to overcome it before we got to the "AI age".
- pixl97 3y agoHeh, I don't think you've had enough philosophy under your belt to realize how incredibly far we are from figuring that out... Or to say, "It's Plato's cave all the way down"
- RodgerTheGreat 3y agoOne of the worst-case scenarios I can presently imagine for LLMs is a world so drowned in semi-plausible nonsense that new generations teach themselves to simply ignore the printed word, subconsciously categorizing it as noise, and in so doing essentially un-invent literacy.
- wizzwizz4 3y agoThen, maybe, we can re-invent libraries. (https://xkcd.com/1909/ https://xkcd.com/1909/)
- fzzzy 3y agoLiteracy isn't required if a computer can read any text. That is a huge amount of the brain that could be applied to something else.
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoI genuinely haven't in some time read an opinion so horrifying as this. Well done.
- RodgerTheGreat 3y agoDo you think it would have the same psychological impact if you had to ask your cell phone to read it to you?
- ToucanLoucan 3y agoIf nothing else the irony would be painful.