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We left with empty hands, a hundred and seventy years ago, and we were right. We took nothing.
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
An entire open source LLM ecosystem has rapidly arisen in response, providing interesting alternative choices. These models tend to be smaller and more specialized, and often able to provide comparable performance for certain applications. For example, a recent study used only peer-reviewed climate research evaluated by experts (ClimateBERT). This was shown to provide significantly more accurate results than ChatGPT with climate-related queries.
Augmented: Planners in an Era of Generative AI
planning.org
The question that arises is whether the disappearances of the Stone Age and disappearances of more recent times are in effect part of a single extinction event—whether, in short, humans are inherently bad news for other living things. The sad likelihood is that we may well be.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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