LLMs

Artificial Intelligence

Timothy Shih and • 244 cards

#138: Do you pass the Turing test?

"A key challenge of (LLMs) is that they do not come with a manual! They come with a “Twitter influencer manual” instead, where lots of people online loudly boast about the things they can do with a very low accuracy rate, which is really frustrating..."

Simon Willison, attempting to explain LLM

Johann Van Tonder

LLMs and information post-scarcity

Gordon Brander subconscious.substack.com

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LLMs are mid. It does a good job at getting the average and this is useful in many areas where this is tough. When you want "good", LLMs let you down. We underestimate the impact doing things to a "mid" level will have on the world.

Ian Vanagas

Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers

arxiv.org

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ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web | The New Yorker

Ted Chiang newyorker.com

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Talking about large language models