Love what you write, Benjamin. (Have been a fan since I picked up 'deliberate practice' from you guys when I was still a teacher.) But it feels like a dangerous topic&time about which to be using words like 'never'. Absolutes are the death of the credbile, after all 😉
And on 'Her': we're still need real world LLMs to speak in our language... who's to say they wouldn't already make new metaphors if they could converse in vectors, instead of forcing (and probably distorting) useful connections through the bottleneck of English..?
Thanks Dominic, nice to have a fan from my older world stay active in the new. And while I take your point, I am unafraid to say that LLMs will not develop the capacity for irony, in the same way I am unafraid to make that claim about my toaster. Don't get me wrong, it's fun to imagine the alternative possibilities, including a post-verbal form of communication -- check out the movie Arrival for wonderful exploration of this with aliens.
But in terms of the AI tools we build, sorry, there is no irony forthcoming!
Love what you write, Benjamin. (Have been a fan since I picked up 'deliberate practice' from you guys when I was still a teacher.) But it feels like a dangerous topic&time about which to be using words like 'never'. Absolutes are the death of the credbile, after all 😉
And on 'Her': we're still need real world LLMs to speak in our language... who's to say they wouldn't already make new metaphors if they could converse in vectors, instead of forcing (and probably distorting) useful connections through the bottleneck of English..?
Thanks Dominic, nice to have a fan from my older world stay active in the new. And while I take your point, I am unafraid to say that LLMs will not develop the capacity for irony, in the same way I am unafraid to make that claim about my toaster. Don't get me wrong, it's fun to imagine the alternative possibilities, including a post-verbal form of communication -- check out the movie Arrival for wonderful exploration of this with aliens.
But in terms of the AI tools we build, sorry, there is no irony forthcoming!
Just my kind of wonkery! Also: *chef's kiss* on the image.
Ah thank you, so gratifying that you get that.