> "I'd like to return this stochastic parrot-- its alive" more
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> The thing is, LaMDA sounds too damn much like us. It claims not only to have… more
> Suppose, as an illustration, that you live in a very different time and… more
> basically the internet is turning into an inhospitable dumping ground and… more
> LLMs are kind of like sails in that left free flowing they're completely… more
> [...] suppose a literal “country of geniuses” were to materialize somewhere in the world in ~2027. Imagine, say, 50 million people, all of whom are much more capable than any Nobel Prize winner, statesman, or technologist. more
> When you're using [a coding agent] to clean up your codebase and improve code… more
> What I think now: GPT can only simulate. If you punish it for simulating bad characters, it will start simulating good characters. Now it only ever simulates one character, the HHH Assistant. more
> Actually, I never made the conscious decision to call this class of AI “simulators.” Hours of GPT gameplay and the word fell naturally out of my generative model – I was obviously running simulations. more
> I like to think of language models like ChatGPT as a calculator for words.
> This is reflected in their name: a “language model” implies that they are tools for working with language. [...]
> Want them to work with specific facts? Paste those [...] as part of your original prompt!
> In the field of artificial intelligence, a hallucination [...] is a response… more
> Searle imagines himself alone in a room following a computer program for… more
> What’s happening in AI today feels, to some of its participants, more like an… more
> Gas Town is a new take on the IDE for 2026. Gas Town helps you with the… more
> In its purest form, Ralph is a Bash loop. more
> [...] today's frontier LLM research is not about building animals. It is… more
> [...] Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web. It… more
> In machine learning, the term stochastic parrot is a metaphor, introduced by… more
> If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence… more
> We are skeptical of those that talk
> [...] Now I have a full-time driver. I’m in the back seat, giving directions… more