Isabelle Levent

The fact that adding keywords like  Let’s Think Step By Step , adding “Greg Rutkowski”, prompt weights, and even negative prompting are still so enormously effective, is a sign that we are nowhere close to perfecting the “language” part of “large language models”.

I think that the language model’s failure to dismiss the class results from a slightly different cause than my student’s failure to dismiss the class with the same utterance. While the student’s failure arises from their lack of authority, the model’s failure results from the fact that it functions more like a  citation  of language rather than a

A couple participants found success using the chatbot as a convenient search engine alternative (KL, WT). KL wrote: “It’s kind of great to use the chat interface and treat LaMDA as a thesaurus, quote finder, and general research assistant.”

the reconfiguration of culture as a domain of not just human-made meanings but also machinic calculation

“Our business has never been about the ease of creating imagery or the resulting volume. It is about connecting and cutting through.”

It becomes a question of who created a certain work of art.