Unless ChatGPT is the next Alexa.
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Fear that AI writing may prioritize popularity over quality
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Well, that's the hope. My (short-term) fear is if it proves that outside of a tiny subpopulation there's no demand for good writing or ability to discern it; the AI outputs go to where there's max demand, and sparkling generic deepities outcompete thinking.
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Transformers Scale Arithmetic Rather Than Performing Algebra
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Transformers are like scaling up arithmetic instead of doing algebra.
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Language Models Need Acoustic Models to Match Reality
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The original language models were only half of a speech recognizer, whose function was to produce coherent text. The other half was the acoustic model, whose function was to ensure the text corresponded to reality. We forget the latter at our peril.
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Human Text Generation Differs from GPT Sequential Token Processing
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When humans generate text (articles, posts, papers, etc) they spend very different amount of time per token, create intermediate work, make edits, etc. Very different from GPTs that just go chunk chunk chunk. But there seem to be enough puzzle pieces out and about to remedy.
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LLMs Make Unique Mistakes Unlike Human Reasoning
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Not really. LLMs screw up on some questions like no human ever would, e.g.: https://
economist.com/by-invitation/
2022/06/09/artificial-neural-networks-today-are-not-conscious-according-to-douglas-hofstadter
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ChatGPT lacks time to think unlike humans
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The deepest unintuitive disconnect w.r.t. psychology of ChatGPT is that it doesn't get "time to think". It has a small, fixed amount of thought for each output token. A bit like human forced to speak very fast. Asking them to produce more text is giving them more time to think.
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ChatGPT Outperforms Husband in Empathy and Listening Skills
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According to my wife ChatGPT answers her questions more empathetic and human than i do. Apprently it also listens better to what she actually asked. Anyway, i have been put on notice and shall practice with it. Stupid robots making me look bad.
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We Are All Stochastic Parrots: Understanding AI Language Models
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i am a stochastic parrot, and so r u
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Language Models Understanding Meaning Beyond Sequence Generation
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gentle reminder: takes like these are thoughtful, interesting, and may be a consequence of emitting the next words in a sequence. but saying there is no understanding of meaning is quite a stretch.