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Good analysis. I struggled through that piece.

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Apr 19, 2023·edited Apr 19, 2023

Thanks for reading. The piece isn't about AI technology and its implications at all, it draws on ML theory strictly as a resource for cognitive theory. I'm personally pretty negative about LLMs and their implications, but it's not a topic my work deals with.

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I can't make sense of Hinton, so I had GPT4 summarize it, but just like a summary it did of one of your other posts here, GPT4 made no mention of AI, LLMs, etc. It guesses at what an essay might mean with poor results. It's also a bad poet. Or a good and incredibly fast writer of banal pastiche. It seems to need formal constraints, especially rhyme, but it only does a few traditional verse forms. It's very hard to get it to do blank verse. Prompting it for a frog-shaped poem about frogs I got this gem.

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