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  1. Good interview with award-winning writer and scientist Ted #Chiang.

    Going to #university is about exercising your brain. The condition for #wisdom. Exercising thinking strength requires the exertion of thinking. Using #AI to write your assignments is doing the opposite.

    @Iris

  2. this is a very interesting article by ted chiang about the quality of LLM like chatgpt a.o. the LLM's "hallucinations" as inevitable effects of data compression

    Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information on the Web, in the same way that a JPEG retains much of the information of a higher-resolution image, but, if you’re looking for an exact sequence of bits, you won’t find it; all you will ever get is an approximation. But, because the approximation is presented in the form of grammatical text, which ChatGPT excels at creating, it’s usually acceptable. You’re still looking at a blurry JPEG, but the blurriness occurs in a way that doesn’t make the picture as a whole look less sharp.

    worth reading!

    via @Cory Doctorow

    #computer #internet #Doctorow #Chiang #LLM #ChatGPT #AI #KI

    #^ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web



    OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?
  3. @tante

    It's so reassuring to hear that real writers care more about authenticity than quality!

    That must be why they avoid editors who might sully their work with unnatural changes. Even copy editors might remove their authentic typos and spelling mistakes. I'm sure the hardcore writers won't even use a dictionary to check their spelling, amirite?!

    ....

    Dude, it's a bad take, rooted in ignorance.

    #ai #chiang

  4. Ted #Chiang wrote”: if you want something done but don’t want to get your hands dirty, #McKinsey will do it for you. That escape from accountability is one of the most valuable services that management consultancies provide. […] By hiring consultants, management can say that they were just following independent, expert advice. Even in its current rudimentary form, #AI has become a way for a company to evade responsibility by saying that it’s just doing what “the algorithm” says.”

    #capitalism 🧶

  5. A new #Chiang in #Taipei: Seven decades after Chiang Kai-shek retreated across the Taiwan Strait to Taipei, the former dictator's great-grandson was elected Saturday as mayor of the Taiwanese capital axios.com/newsletters/axios-ch #axioschina

  6. A new #Chiang in #Taipei: Seven decades after Chiang Kai-shek retreated across the Taiwan Strait to Taipei, the former dictator's great-grandson was elected Saturday as mayor of the Taiwanese capital axios.com/newsletters/axios-ch #axioschina

  7. A new #Chiang in #Taipei: Seven decades after Chiang Kai-shek retreated across the Taiwan Strait to Taipei, the former dictator's great-grandson was elected Saturday as mayor of the Taiwanese capital axios.com/newsletters/axios-ch #axioschina