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Hinton has an answer for that too: bullshitting is a feature, not a bug. “People always confabulate,” he says. Half-truths and misremembered details are hallmarks of human conversation: “Confabulation is a signature of human memory. These models are doing something just like people.”
Geoffrey Hinton Tells Us Why He’s Now Scared of the Tech He Helped Build
technologyreview.com
They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?”
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
What use is there in having something that rephrases the Web? If we were losing our access to the Internet forever and had to store a copy on a private server with limited space, a large language model like ChatGPT might be a good solution, assuming that it could be kept from fabricating. But we aren’t losing our access to the Internet. So just how much use is a blurry JPEG, when you still have the original?
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
newyorker.com
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