I wholeheartedly agree with this. Given the comical mistakes of early models and the technology’s indelible association with the emergent techno-fascist class, academics have generally been dismissive about the near term socioeconomic disruption of AI. This needs to change, and fast.
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José Marichal
Good post by Paul Musgrave on how far LLM's have come in data analysis...
"It recognized a quadratic equation and then calculated the minimum. I didn’t even know to ask. And a lot of people are still making hurr-durr it can’t count r’s in strawberry jokes."
academics need to take this seriously
"It recognized a quadratic equation and then calculated the minimum. I didn’t even know to ask. And a lot of people are still making hurr-durr it can’t count r’s in strawberry jokes."
academics need to take this seriously
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It is really a new world. I agree, we have not come to terms with the changes.