Comment by msla
2 years ago
If this article is the best the New Yorker offers now, I'm glad I don't subscribe.
It used to have high-quality articles, certainly.
2 years ago
If this article is the best the New Yorker offers now, I'm glad I don't subscribe.
It used to have high-quality articles, certainly.
I thought the author was uncharacteristically perceptive for a reporter. Yann LeCun or Geoff Hinton couldn't have come up with a better analogy.
The author is not a random reporter but Ted Chiang, a well-known science fiction author. The movie "Arrival" is based on a story by him.
Which explains why this is being promoted:
He paid for an advertisement, wrote this article as that advertisement or had it ghostwritten, and now it's being hyped.
Analogy of?
"Blurry JPEG" for how ChatGPT "compresses" character-based knowledge into vectors. That "compression" process gives ChatGPT an ability to generalize because it learns statistics (unlike JPEG) but like JPEG it is a lossy process.
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So they can't afford an actual subject-matter expert for their articles?
In a world where supposedly more-tech-industry-aware writers are talking about what "ChatGPT believes" and other such personification... show me a better article.
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