the most valid critiques of AI/LLMs:

1. lack of training opt out
2. economic impact on workers
3. unethical usage
4. lack of transparency/oversight

the least valid critiques of AI/LLMs:

1. slop
2. copyright/IP
3. environment
4. hallucinations

Study in Nature: “Across 30 out of 32 evaluation axes from the specialist physician perspective & 25 out of 26 evaluation axes from the patient-actor perspective, AMIE [Google Medical LLM] was rated superior to PCPs [primary care docs] while being non-inferior on the rest.”

(& AIME is an older LLM)

I wish people understood that fiction, like Harlan Ellison's horror/sf about an awakening sentience "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," not to mention Terminator tie-in books is * in the training databases * but this has absolutely fooled experts who really should know better

Very interesting oral history -- interviews with some top NLP folks on the effects of GenAI on their field:

www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...

AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels.

The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

👀Today’s AIs are already hyper persuasive.

A controversial study where LLMs tried to persuade users on Reddit found that: “Notably, all our treatments surpass human performance substantially, achieving persuasive rates between three and six times higher than the human baseline.”

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