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.
Reposted from 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

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