AI Thoughts

I am much more concerned about the decline of today’s thinking people than I am about the rise of tomorrow’s thinking machines.

AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind

outsourcing the entire writing process to LLMs may deprive us of the opportunity to reflect on our field and engage in the creative, essential task of shaping research findings into a compelling narrative — a skill that is certainly important beyond scholarly writing and publishing.

ChatGPT’s appearance of humanlike intelligence, she and others point out, is a mirage. The narcotized text it produces is only a recombination of whatever corpora it consumes; LLMs, Bender argues, should be seen as “stochastic parrots” and “synthetic text extruding machines.” Where real thinking involves organic associations, speculative leaps, and... See more

a lot of the creativity anxiety is actually economic anxiety. It’s “I am worried that this thing is going to take my job and I will no longer be able to make a living.” I think that is a super valid anxiety that we need to be talking about more. I just wish it wasn’t couched in all of this sort of arts elitism stuff about how it’s not actually that... See more