(Not trying to be all "well actually" about this. It's just that I think there is a genuinely interesting development here, which fits in the tradition of engineering borrowing principles from natural systems, but gets lost in "are they people?!" media hype).
So while it's absolutely true LLMs are not good models of human cognition, it is true that AI systems have got much better at fuzzy, ambiguous tasks by incorporating architectures inspired by neural systems. The issue is popular coverage is really bad at distinguishing those two claims.
I think the issue is that two claims get conflated:
"Statistical learning over massively distributed representations is more similar to neural processing than symbol manipulation is"
"Connectionist / Neural Networks / Deep Learning / Transformer models are just like humans"
Of course, this skeet is now a citable document. So soon we are going to see "Against Meager's Principle" getting published somewhere. Maybe future undergrads will learn about the whole Meager-Bright Controversy.
Once got a spontaneous round of applause from the staff of a food stall after calmly talking my toddler son down from a public tantrum. They had clearly <been there>
One of the best things about 40k is that "Beserk Catholic Space Vampires" is just a standard unremarkable core faction
Rafe policing the boundaries of the discipline
Absolutely agree. Really dislike the 80s action-hero square-jawed look.
Isn't there something about them being able to deploy a Burger King anywhere in the world within a day?
Matt Pike plays riffs: unsurprising
Matt Pike wears a shirt: not unheard of, but uncommon enough to be noteworthy
Omg I had totally forgotten about the causal passing reference to a "jazz improvisation class"
I'm a fan of the man, the band, and the wider genre. But even given that, it's a very idiosyncratic take on Van Halen
Was waiting for "well, of course, what people don't know is that we were massive synth pop fans"
<feedback noises as he launched into a extremely distorted, sludgy rendition of 'Take On Me'>
This remains one of my favourite videos on the Internet. You dont have to be a fan to enjoy the humour of song after song being rendered in his highly distinctive distorted style, and the subtle implication that is what <everything> sounds like to him
youtu.be/7O0-NdVXZvw?...
Debord-pilled
This feels Suez-y. Historians, is it Suezesque?
"Sorry, no croissants, but we threw in a camembert instead"
T-I-very-much-L
ITS ABOUT <WHAT>?!?!
On Copper Pieces and the Many Quotidian Places they may be Hidden
Now imagining them casting Steve Van Zandt and Michael Imperioli (complete with Joi-sey accents dialled up to 11)
Never occured to me before, but it's quite possible the first moon-base personnel will be of a generation such that they are walking around singing "we like thaaaa mooooon cos it is close to usssssss"
With his brothers Cy and Pirate
Our cyberpunk corporate overloads, competing for social status by dropping references to the various trials of the Primarchs in the same way aristocrats used to invoke the Greek myths
A variant on Idiocracy; the return of a classics education as the mark of social status, except it's based on close exegesis of the Horus Heresy novels
This was supposed to be a silly joke when I posted it (6 years ago on Twitter-as-was)
Nearly spat out my coffee at the discussion of Oliver giving up riding
"... and I also can't wait for my large orange cat to arrive from the shelter!"
