The writers’ strike is in its fifth month. I support the writers in their efforts to share in the wealth of the film industry, and I understand their concern about being terminated (so to speak) by AI. But I think they have some things very wrong. The thrust of the…
Premature Emasculation
The Baby and the Bathwater Let us be neither too rapturous, nor too fearful, of LLM’s. Since the advent of ChatGPT, we’ve been whipsawed between rhapsodic infatuation, and a kind of weary lamentation of its lack of true understanding. There is no doubt that these Large Language Models (LLMs) are…
On Alignment
“Alignment” refers to the AI carrying out the intent of the human that is calling it. If ML models are black boxes, then we are in trouble. Let’s say I’m in conversation with another person, who I’ve asked to translate a body of text, from English into Chinese. I don’t…