Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new
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Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new
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Re: Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new
#2This appears to be a basically content-free slideshow with very shallow thinking...
Re: Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new
#3I agree with the sentiment, but the flashy website is distracting and obnoxious
Re: Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new
#4OK as prototypist I can safely say "Yes!" and I've been repeating this for a while now. If you want something that is close to what everybody else does, or said, using statistical means make sense. If you are interested by genuine novelty, things on the fringe where the usual process breaks, then it still remains hard.
Anyway, going to read the actual piece but felt I needed this off my chest.
Re: Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new
#5This appears to be a basically content-free slideshow with very shallow thinking...
It's this blog's MO
> A running transmission of half-formed thoughts, sketched before they cool into language. Pages that perform their ideas instead of explaining them.
Re: Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new
#6This is my biggest concern. Speaking as someone who recently had to read 60 AI generated reports (the whole issue of how much students are using AI is one discussion), it was genuinely soul-destroying reading the same phrases, seem sentence structures, same arguments over and over. Depressed me the whole of the next day.
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#7Re: Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new
#8Our future: Fifty billion shades of beige.
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#9Re: Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new
#10Good potential for discussion here. I full agree with the underlying premise: This technology CANNOT be allowed to just give us more of the same, but lazily. It HAS TO be an empowering tool. It has to unlock NEW discoveries.
For the purpose of discussion though, this also undersells AIs:
1. They CAN be great tools for novelty + discovery! You just need to ask and explore and put in work. Its not "easy", but it does help.
2. Sometimes "the mean" is what you want. Sometimes I'm not after art. I'm after something efficient and recognizable and easy to maintain.
How this oversells AIs:
1. We are losing the muscle of forced creativity and problem solving. There is a certain kind of learned privilege that comes from facing a problem and having your instinctive reaction be to ask for and expect help from something else rather than to roll up your sleeves or sit back and have a think. If the system incentivizes loss of muscle en-masse, we're gonna lose something beautiful and powerful.