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Neal Stephenson’s Most Stunning Prediction - The Atlantic
friends and family know what massive neal stephenson fan i am. i forgot all about the diamond age. an interesting interview. i’m always re-assured when authors i respect seem to get it. (yes, confirmation bias)
A chatbot is not an oracle; it’s a statistics engine that creates sentences that sound accurate.
the best tweet i’ve been redirected to in a long time, re: AI.
People seem to be falling for two rather thoughtless extremes:
— François Chollet (@fchollet) February 9, 2024
1. "LLMs are AGI, they work like the human brain, they can reason, etc."
2. "LLMs are dumb and useless."
Reality is that LLMs are not AGI -- they're a big curve fit to a very large dataset. They work via…