It’s a nice fact that LLMs are pretty smart and useful now but suck at writing good prose. Suggests writing well really is very hard.
It’s a nice fact that LLMs are pretty smart and useful now but suck at writing good prose. Suggests writing well really is very hard.
Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out of it.
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
A very common trope is to treat LLMs as if they were intelligent agents going out in the world and doing things. That’s just a category mistake. A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions. We have been doing this for as long a... See more
Steven Johnson • Revenge of the Humanities
People need to be more thoughtful building products on top of LLMs. The fact that they generate text is not the point.
Linus Leestream.thesephist.comLLMs and all such products tend to converge: on styles, on forms, on patterns; the “sameness” isn’t incidental, it’s actually core to what these technologies do, how they work; they will always have this quality; this quality is their modus operandi, really! There is no world in which LLMs write interesting things.
Humans care about what other human
... See moreYou can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well.