Shawn Powers

Well, and it yields a question I’ve thought about a lot as someone who follows the politics of regulation pretty closely. My sense is always that human beings are just really bad at regulating against problems that we haven’t experienced in some big, profound way.

This is the meaning (or at least one of the meanings) of that famous statement associated with the notoriously difficult French theorist Jacques Derrida: “Il n’y a pas de hors-texte,”or “There is nothing outside the text.” And this fact is especially true for LLMs as there is, quite literally, nothing outside the texts on which they have been train... See more

When asked “how are you doing?”, it’s likely to reply “I’m doing well” because that’s small talk — and reminding the user that it’s “just” an LLM with no feelings gets old and distracting.

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The use of Ghibli-esque anime in the OpenAI demo was intentional; “we put a lot of thought into the initial examples we show when we introduce new technology,”