More AI retardation
and another episode in me failing to be convinced that language models are doing anything very differently than humans
Ethan Mollick @emollick
Compare how much info humans take in to spit out better results to how much info present day AI takes in to spit out unoriginal garbage. Instead of leagues from inches, present day AI spits out inches from leagues. “Postmodernist essay” generators have been popular for at least 15 years. I’m not saying Ecclesiastes is to be taken literally -but consider how much your long-term memory has been made inaccessible.
And computer prices don’t seem to be falling particularly rapidly:
Software progress may beat lack of hardware progress -but are you willing to bet on it?
Again, focus not on text plagiarism and automatic visual art -focus on artificial vision and artificial music.