Comment by sandgiant
4 years ago
Thank you for posting this. I'm always a bit conflicted when "AI" news goes viral like this. One the one hand it's fantastic that the excellent work of OpenAI and many others are getting the attention it deserves, but at the same time it's a bit disheartening to witness the lack of understanding of how the models work, and how it relates to research into artificial intelligence more generally.
I guess that could probably be said about most research fields though. We've just not reached novelty-saturation in machine learning sciences yet. Let's enjoy the attention while it lasts!
This was actually a bit of a metajoke about recursion mixed with the old adage of being replaced with a shell script mixed with commentary on how the criticisms of the language model are so formulaic that the language model can generate them.
Yes, it's brilliant! I love how novel things like these always end up on their own axis of reality, while everyone (including me) is trying hard to project them onto whatever predisposed axes we're hauling around.