Cuts through and gets to the reason for the AI hype and what AI is actually all about (automation in a shiny wrapper and is little more than a “stochastic parrot”, a term that she coined in a 2021 paper).
alganet•5mo ago
Companies are swiftly moving from an "intelligence" narrative to an "augmentation" narrative (I think it's also doomed).
I think the linguists already won, but the AI tale is so tall it hasn't had the time to hit the ground yet.
sherdil2022•5mo ago
Worth reading.
Cuts through and gets to the reason for the AI hype and what AI is actually all about (automation in a shiny wrapper and is little more than a “stochastic parrot”, a term that she coined in a 2021 paper).