So you haven’t got time to read through hefty books about the AI industry. You’ve had fun with image generators, and you find chatbots useful although occasionally alarming. But there’s information firing at you from all directions, and it’s wildly contradictory, alarming, exciting, and horrifying, all at the same time. What the heck are you supposed to do?
Category: Tech Industry
All Things to All People
On the implications of an All Things to All People Device.
What is creativity, and can chatbots have it?
Creativity requires a new take on something. An original perspective. Something no one else has thought of. LLMs, by definition, produce the kinds of things they have already seen. The kinds of things that already exist. The kinds of things that reinforce the status quo, entrench bias, and emphasise the mundane.
Hallucinations all the way down
The thing is, it's not reasoning. It's not a reasoning machine. It's not even trying to give you correct answers. It's trying to give you statistically plausible text. The fact that the plausible text is occasionally correct is the surprise. The fact that regularly gets things wrong is exactly how these systems work.
Schrödinger’s AI
Pushing back against AI hype sometimes feels futile, but every person you reach matters. So how do we fight back?